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The Great Stain : witnessing American slavery  Cover Image E-book E-book

The Great Stain : witnessing American slavery / Noel Rae.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781468315141
  • ISBN: 1468315145
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (591 pages) : illustrations, map
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-582) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Slavery > United States > History.
Slave trade > United States > History.
Slavery > United States > History.
African Americans
HISTORY > African American.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Slave trade.
Slavery.
United States.
Genre: Electronic books.
History.


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