Negro Sexuality and Slave Insurrection.

This article discusses book, "The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States," by Winthrop D. Jordan. Although miscegenation was probably more common among the lower orders, the White men of every rank slept with African American women. Least surprising, perhaps, was the common assumption that African American women were especially passionate, an idea which found literary, or at least, literary expression especially in the South-Carolina Gazette and in West Indian books. The notion that black men were particularly virile, promiscuous, and lusty was of course not new in the eighteenth century, but the English colonists in America showed signs of adding a half-conscious and revealing specific corollary.