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The great stain : (Record no. 57352)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
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003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20190205184057.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781468315134
Qualifying information (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 1468315137
Qualifying information (hardcover)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency BTCTA
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency BTCTA
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043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code n-us---
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050 14 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number E441
Item number .R278 2018
Classification number E441
Item number .R34 2018
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 306.3/620973
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rae, Noel
Fuller form of name (Noel Martin Douglas),
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 71294
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The great stain :
Remainder of title witnessing American slavery /
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York, NY :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc The Overlook Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2018.
Date of publication, distribution, etc �2018
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 591 pages :
Other physical details illustrations, map ;
Dimensions 24 cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-582) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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.
Summary, etc "Comprising personal accounts from an intensely consequential chapter in our country's history, 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. 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, The Great Stain 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."--Dust jacket.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Slavery
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Slave trade
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Slavery.
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term History.
Source of term fast
9 (RLIN) 71297
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type NF
Holdings
Lost status Collection code Current library Shelving location Full call number Barcode Number Koha item type
  Nonfiction Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 306.3 RAE 34480000559546 NF