Jordan gives an excellent if not exhaustive account of antecedents of Englishmen's attitudes regarding negroes, referring to classical antiquity, the Jewish bible, and Christian bible and Reformation sources, as well as precolonial British, continental, and even Muslim attitudes, traditions, and sources, including Shakespeare's Othello, and even The Holy Qu-ran, Surah III,106-7.
Then, in Ch 2, he starts out giving an account causally directly inconsistent with his own Ch 1, "First Impressions" account of antecedents:
"...once the Negro became fully the slave, it is not hard to see why white men looked down upon him.
He has reversed the order of causation argued in his own account. Once you read his Ch 1, it is not hard to see how Englishmen had come to look down upon negroes.
The institution of slavery in colonial America was not the cause, but rather merely one effect.
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