 | White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) taught history at the University of Mississippi. His books include Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy and White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States . Christopher Leslie Brown is professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author of Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism , for which he won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Peter H. Wood is history professor emeritus at Duke University and author of Strange New Land: African Americans, 1526-1776 , among others. |
