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The great stain : witnessing American slavery / Noel Rae.

by Rae, Noel (Noel Martin Douglas).

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The Overlook Press, 2018.

Slavery -- United States -- History.

Slave trade -- United States -- History.

9781468315134 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Witnessing American slavery

591 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-582) and index.

Out of Africa -- The trade -- Personal stories -- The Middle Passage -- The colonies -- The Revolution -- The peculiar institution -- White testimony -- Black experience -- Fugitives -- Resistance -- The positive good -- The abolitionists -- The Civil War.

"The Great Stain tells the story of American slavery from its origins in Africa to its abolition with the end of the Civil War. In this 'essential' (Kirkus) new work, Noel Rae integrates firsthand accounts into a narrative history that brings the reader face to face with slavery's everyday reality, expertly weaving together narratives that span hundreds of years. From the travel journals of sixteenth-century Spanish settlers who offered religious instruction and 'protection' in exchange for farm labor, to the diaries of poetess Phillis Wheatley and Reverend Cotton Mather, to Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted's book about traveling through the 'cotton states,' to an 1880 speech given by Frederick Douglass, Rae provides a comprehensive accounting of parties from throughout the antebellum history of the nation. Rae also draws on a wide variety of accounts from less distinguished individuals: a surgeon describes the brutal treatment and squalid conditions onboard a slave ship as he made his daily rounds to collect the dead; an Englishman visiting Haiti observes violent uprisings as, separated from the population on the mainland, slaves were able to overpower their captors. Meticulously researched, this is a work of history that is profoundly relevant to our world today."--From publisher.

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