Roots of American Racism Essays on the Colonial Experience

Name: Roots of American Racism Essays on the Colonial Experience
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ISBN: 9780195086874

ISBN-10: 0195086872

ISBN-13: 9780195086874

Edition: 1995

Authors: Alden T. Vaughan

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This important new collection brings together ten of Alden Vaughan's essays about race relations in the British colonies. Focusing on the variable role of cultural and racial perceptions on colonial policies for Indians and African Americans, the essays include explorations of the origins of slavery and racism in Virginia, the causes of the Puritans' war against the Pequots, and the contest between natives and colonists to win the other's allegiance by persuasion or captivity. Less controversial but equally important to understanding the racial dynamics of early America are essays on early English paradigmatic views of Native Americans, the changing Anglo-American perceptions of Indian…

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List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/11/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Alden T. Vaughan is an Affiliate Professor at Clark University, USA and a Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, USA. He is co-editor of the Arden Third Series edition of The Tempest.




Changing Perceptions



From White Man to Redskin: Changing Anglo-American Perceptions of the American Indian



Early English Paradigms for New World Natives



Slaveholders' "Hellish Principles": A Seventeenth-Century Critique



Frontier Banditti and the Indians: The Paxton Boys' Legacy, 1763-75



Culture and Race in Early Virginia



"Expulsion of the Salvages": English Policy and the Virginia Massacre of 1622



Blacks in Virginia: Evidence from the First Decade



The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia



Puritans and Indians



Pequots and Puritans: The Causes of the War of 1637



Tests of Puritan Justice



Crossing the Cultural Divide: Indians and New Englanders, 1605-1763 (with Daniel K. Richter)


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