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Name: The great stain
Author: Noel Rae

The Great Stain offers a meticulously researched narrative history of American slavery, drawing on hundreds of original sources from the 16th through the 19th centuries. By weaving together diaries, travel journals, speeches, and personal interviews—ranging from sixteenth‑century Spanish settlers and poetess Phillis Wheatley to Frederick Douglass and former slave Solomon Northup—the book presents a comprehensive, face‑to‑face portrayal of slavery’s cruelty and resistance. For its readers, the work substitutes abstract statistics with vivid insights into the daily lives, brutal treatment, and societal exploitation that defined the era, while linking those experiences to contemporary relevance.

First publish date: 2018

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Noel Rae

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