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How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Clint Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2021]Edition: Back Bay paperback editionDescription: 334 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316492928
Other title:
  • Reckoning with the history of slavery across America
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E441 .S654 2021b
Contents:
"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.
Summary: "'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."--
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"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."--

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