Anti-Black Prejudice in America

The book traces the deep historical roots of colonial/racial attitudes of Europeans as they discovered, conquered, and settled the Americas, exploiting African slaves as the labor force. Those attitudes were to a great extent shaped by a very prudish morality founded on Christianity. It covers the  history of slavery in North America in some detail and gives a chilling account of the oppression, antiblack riots, and lynchings of the Jim Crow era. The largest part of the book deals with