"Cruelty is endured and inflicted by the same people.

In Days Without End, Thomas McNulty, an Irish famine victim,
takes part in slaughtering Indigenous Americans; 

in The Newer World, Tennyson, an African American victim
of enslavement, does the same.
It is “never enough for Americans to live in their American paradise. There had to be blood and chaos all the while too.”

- review of the latter by Sara Collins.