'The Shortest Pain' is a testimony to Fred D'Aguiar's gripping exploration of life which is 'The Longest Memory'. It is a first person account regarding the death of Chapel within the main story from another character's perspective, specifically a character who has been invented as a plantation owner who happens to hear Mr Whitechapel at the Gentlemen's Club one fateful night. There he chooses to converse with him and leads to their sharing of beliefs upon the matter of American slavery in the South between 1790 and 1810.All Rights Reserved