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		Rae, Noel (Noel Martin Douglas), author.

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		Slavery -- United States -- History
		Slave trade -- United States -- History.
		African Americans -- Social conditions -- History.
		Slaves -- United States -- Personal narratives.
		Afro-Americans -- Personal narratives.
		Slavery -- United States -- History
		History -- African American.
		History -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
		Slavery -- United States -- History
		Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources.
		Slave trade -- United States -- History.
		Slave trade -- United States -- History. -- Sources.
		Slavery -- United States -- History
		Slavery -- United States -- History
		Slave trade -- United States -- History. -- Sources.
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The Great stain : witnessing American slavery / Noel Rae.

by Rae, Noel (Noel Martin Douglas), author.

New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2018.

Description:

591 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

Draws on personal accounts from the transatlantic slave trade era to share firsthand insights into what slavery was actually like from the perspectives of former slaves, slave owners, and African slavers.

"Comprising personal accounts from an intensely consequential chapter in our country's history, [this book] tells the story of American slavery from its origins in Africa to its abolition with the end of the Civil War. In this 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. Most significant are the texts from and interviews with former slaves themselves, ranging from the famous Solomon Northup to the virtually unknown Mary Reynolds, who was sold away from her mother and subsequently bought back not for sentiment or kindness, but because after losing her daughter, the family's wet nurse began to waste away from grief. Surpassing a dispassionate listing of atrocities, Rae places the reader within the era. Drawing on thousands of original sources, [this book] tells of repression and resistance in a society based on the exploitation of the cheapest labor and fallacies of racial superiority. Meticulously researched, this is a work of history that is profoundly relevant to our world today."--Jacket.

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Literature

Personal narratives

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