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This book and its wealth of documents and reports make a welcome, ready reference. Essential for students of American slavery and antebellum history. -- Kirkus Reviews Covers the complete story of American slavery from the start of the transatlantic trade in the fifteenth century to slavery's end...Highly recommended. -- Library Journal (starred review) To allow narrative voices, black and white, to come through, Rae draws on a remarkable assemblage of documents...as well as oral histories of former slaves and excerpts from the writings of free persons who lived in the South...The result is a uniquely immediate, multivoiced, specific, arresting, and illuminating look at life under slavery in America. -- Booklist (starred review) A moving, eye-opening account of the complexity and horror of human bondage. The testimony of slaves is particularly powerful...Essential. For all public, general, and undergraduate collections. -- Choice Rae expertly assembles the most consequential accounts from the era of the American slave trade. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he frames a vivid and comprehensive picture of a period in American history about which many only have a vague understanding. -- Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author Narrator Steven Crossley's deep, slightly raspy voice and English accent are instilled with a tone that evokes the voice-over of the classic British documentary. -- AudioFile

"A moving, eye-opening account of the complexity and horror of human bondage. The testimony of slaves is particularly powerful...Essential. For all public, general, and undergraduate collections. -- "" Choice"" Covers the complete story of American slavery from the start of the transatlantic trade in the fifteenth century to slavery's end...Highly recommended. -- ""Library Journal (starred review)"" Narrator Steven Crossley's deep, slightly raspy voice and English accent are instilled with a tone that evokes the voice-over of the classic British documentary. -- ""AudioFile"" Rae expertly assembles the most consequential accounts from the era of the American slave trade. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he frames a vivid and comprehensive picture of a period in American history about which many only have a vague understanding. -- ""Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author"" This book and its wealth of documents and reports make a welcome, ready reference. Essential for students of American slavery and antebellum history. -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" To allow narrative voices, black and white, to come through, Rae draws on a remarkable assemblage of documents...as well as oral histories of former slaves and excerpts from the writings of free persons who lived in the South...The result is a uniquely immediate, multivoiced, specific, arresting, and illuminating look at life under slavery in America. -- ""Booklist (starred review)"""

Narrator Steven Crossley's deep, slightly raspy voice and English accent are instilled with a tone that evokes the voice-over of the classic British documentary. -- AudioFile Rae expertly assembles the most consequential accounts from the era of the American slave trade. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he frames a vivid and comprehensive picture of a period in American history about which many only have a vague understanding. -- Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author A moving, eye-opening account of the complexity and horror of human bondage. The testimony of slaves is particularly powerful...Essential. For all public, general, and undergraduate collections. -- Choice To allow narrative voices, black and white, to come through, Rae draws on a remarkable assemblage of documents...as well as oral histories of former slaves and excerpts from the writings of free persons who lived in the South...The result is a uniquely immediate, multivoiced, specific, arresting, and illuminating look at life under slavery in America. -- Booklist (starred review) Covers the complete story of American slavery from the start of the transatlantic trade in the fifteenth century to slavery's end...Highly recommended. -- Library Journal (starred review) This book and its wealth of documents and reports make a welcome, ready reference. Essential for students of American slavery and antebellum history. -- Kirkus Reviews

A moving, eye-opening account of the complexity and horror of human bondage. The testimony of slaves is particularly powerful...Essential. For all public, general, and undergraduate collections. -- "" Choice"" Covers the complete story of American slavery from the start of the transatlantic trade in the fifteenth century to slavery's end...Highly recommended. -- ""Library Journal (starred review)"" Narrator Steven Crossley's deep, slightly raspy voice and English accent are instilled with a tone that evokes the voice-over of the classic British documentary. -- ""AudioFile"" Rae expertly assembles the most consequential accounts from the era of the American slave trade. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he frames a vivid and comprehensive picture of a period in American history about which many only have a vague understanding. -- ""Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author"" This book and its wealth of documents and reports make a welcome, ready reference. Essential for students of American slavery and antebellum history. -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" To allow narrative voices, black and white, to come through, Rae draws on a remarkable assemblage of documents...as well as oral histories of former slaves and excerpts from the writings of free persons who lived in the South...The result is a uniquely immediate, multivoiced, specific, arresting, and illuminating look at life under slavery in America. -- ""Booklist (starred review)""

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Noel Rae, historian, received an honors degree in history from Oxford University. His books include, among others, The People's War: Original Voices of the American Revolution, Witnessing America: The Library of Congress Book of Firsthand Accounts of Life in America, and This is Berlin: Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany. Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.

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