White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

A timeless classic and award-winning work on the history of race relations in early America. "[A] rare thing: an original contribution to an important subject. In helping us understand today's racial crisis, Jordan has ideally fulfilled the historian's function of investigating the past in order to enlighten the present."--The judges for the 1969 National Book Award for History and Biography "A massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made."--C. Vann Woodward, "New York Times Book Review"