Michael A. Morrison is associate professor of history at Purdue University. James Brewer Stewart is James Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

• Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790-1860 Chapter 3 "Believing That Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food": Hunting, Agriculture, and a Quaker Construction of Indianness in the Early Republic Chapter 4 From Class to Race in Early America: Northern Post-Emancipation Racial Reconstruction Chapter 5 The "Condition" Debate and Racial Discourse in the Antebellum North Chapter 6 "Here in America There Is Neither King Nor Tyrant": European Encounters with Race, "Freedom," and Their European Pasts Chapter 7 Modernizing "Difference": The Political Meanings of Color in the Free States, 1776-1840 Chapter 8 Making the "White Man's Country" White: Race, Slavery, and State-Building in the Jacksonian South Chapter 9 "We Have a Country": Race, Geography, and the Invention of Indian Territory Chapter 10 The Culmination of Racial Polarities and Prejudice

An important contribution to the ongoing debates...

Michael A. Morrison is associate professor of history at Purdue University. James Brewer Stewart is James Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

• Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790-1860 Chapter 3 "Believing That Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food": Hunting, Agriculture, and a Quaker Construction of Indianness in the Early Republic Chapter 4 From Class to Race in Early America: Northern Post-Emancipation Racial Reconstruction Chapter 5 The "Condition" Debate and Racial Discourse in the Antebellum North Chapter 6 "Here in America There Is Neither King Nor Tyrant": European Encounters with Race, "Freedom," and Their European Pasts Chapter 7 Modernizing "Difference": The Political Meanings of Color in the Free States, 1776-1840 Chapter 8 Making the "White Man's Country" White: Race, Slavery, and State-Building in the Jacksonian South Chapter 9 "We Have a Country": Race, Geography, and the Invention of Indian Territory Chapter 10 The Culmination of Racial Polarities and Prejudice

An important contribution to the ongoing debates...

Michael A. Morrison is associate professor of history at Purdue University. James Brewer Stewart is James Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

• Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790-1860 Chapter 3 "Believing That Many of the Red People Suffer Much for the Want of Food": Hunting, Agriculture, and a Quaker Construction of Indianness in the Early Republic Chapter 4 From Class to Race in Early America: Northern Post-Emancipation Racial Reconstruction Chapter 5 The "Condition" Debate and Racial Discourse in the Antebellum North Chapter 6 "Here in America There Is Neither King Nor Tyrant": European Encounters with Race, "Freedom," and Their European Pasts Chapter 7 Modernizing "Difference": The Political Meanings of Color in the Free States, 1776-1840 Chapter 8 Making the "White Man's Country" White: Race, Slavery, and State-Building in the Jacksonian South Chapter 9 "We Have a Country": Race, Geography, and the Invention of Indian Territory Chapter 10 The Culmination of Racial Polarities and Prejudice

An important contribution to the ongoing debates...