The White Man's Burden

Winthrop D. Jordan was professor of history, University of Mississippi and renowned writer on the history of slavery and the origins of racism in the United States.

• Part I: Genesis 1550-17001. First Impressions: Initial English Confrontation with Africans2. Unthinking Decision: Enslavement of Africans in America to 1700Part II. Provincial Decades 1700-17553. Anxious Oppressors: Freedom and Control in Slave Society4. Fruits of Passion: The Dynamics of Interracial Sex5. The Souls of Men: The Negro's Spiritual Nature6. The Bodies of Men: The Negor's Physical NaturePart III. The Revolutionary Era, 1755-17837. Self-Scrutiny in the Revolutionary EraPart. IV Society and Thought, 1783-18128. The Imperatives of Economic Interest and National Identity9. The Limitations of Antislavery10. The Cancer of Revolution11. The Resulting Pattern of SeparationPart V. Thought and Society 1783-181212. Thomas Jefferson: Self and Society13. The Chain of Being and the Stamp of Color14. Toward a White Man's CountryEpilogueExodus

"Still one of the finest works on this topic."--Andrew T. Miller, Union College"The best secondary text I've ever found. It opens a class up to racial-ethnic problems, opens eyes to human perceptions. Keep it in print!"--Robert W. Sellen, Georgia State University"Jordan's White Over Black...[now] published in a slightly more simplified form under the title of The White Man's Burden...is an outstanding work that traces the subtle, insidious and oftentimes unconscious psychology of racism in Western culture back to its Elizabethan origins."--America"The White Man's Burden provides a storehouse of information on the origins of racism in the United States."--Southern Humanities Review"There is no better book on its subject; nor is there likely to be one for many years."--History: Reviews of New Books"Teachers will welcome with relief the appearance of this classic study in a form suitable for classroom use."--Journal of Southern History"A very readable condensation...[N]ot only does it make Jordan's important findings accessible...but it also serves to throw into sharper relief his main argument."--George M. Fredrickson, The New York Review of Books"Precisely what was needed to make the brilliant White Over Black manageable for classroom use."--Richard Crepesi, Florida Technological University"A thoughtful, searching essay on the embryology of racism in the young Republic...For students and scholars, this is a balanced, intelligent investigation of the ideas which fathered Jim Crow."--Kirkus Reviews"Jordan's abridgement is valuable for his concise presentation of his thesis that there was a mutual relationship between prejudice against blacks and slavery, and that after slavery's establishment, other factors, especially interracial sex, created tensions which led to strict control over blacks and to their alienation by white society."--Library Journal"Excellent abridgement of a fine work."--Frank Valadez, University of Illinois"Excellent!"--Professor N.C. Cooper-Lewter, Ph.D., Bethel College"Incomparable..."--Professor Ernest Allen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst