How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America /
Smith, Clint, 1988-
How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Reckoning with the history of slavery across America Clint Smith. - Back Bay paperback edition. - 334 pages ; 21 cm
"The whole city is a memorial to slavery" : Prologue -- "There's a difference between history and nostalgia" : Monticello Plantation -- "An open book, up under the sky" -- The Whitney Plantation -- "I can't change what happened here" : Angola Prison -- "I don't know if it's true or not, but I like it" : Blandford Cemetery -- "Our Independence Day" : Galveston Island -- "We were the good guys, right?" : New York City -- "One slave is too much" : Gorée Island -- "I lived it" : Epilogue -- About this project.
"'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave-owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves."--
9780316492928
2022435100
Smith, Clint, 1988- --Travel--Southern States.
Slavery--History.--United States
Slaveholders--History.--United States
African Americans--Social conditions--History.
Historic sites--Southern States.
Plantations--History.--Southern States
Southern States--Race relations--History.
Southern States--History, Local.
E441 / .S654 2021b
How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Reckoning with the history of slavery across America Clint Smith. - Back Bay paperback edition. - 334 pages ; 21 cm
"The whole city is a memorial to slavery" : Prologue -- "There's a difference between history and nostalgia" : Monticello Plantation -- "An open book, up under the sky" -- The Whitney Plantation -- "I can't change what happened here" : Angola Prison -- "I don't know if it's true or not, but I like it" : Blandford Cemetery -- "Our Independence Day" : Galveston Island -- "We were the good guys, right?" : New York City -- "One slave is too much" : Gorée Island -- "I lived it" : Epilogue -- About this project.
"'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave-owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves."--
9780316492928
2022435100
Smith, Clint, 1988- --Travel--Southern States.
Slavery--History.--United States
Slaveholders--History.--United States
African Americans--Social conditions--History.
Historic sites--Southern States.
Plantations--History.--Southern States
Southern States--Race relations--History.
Southern States--History, Local.
E441 / .S654 2021b