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How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Physical Description
xiii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
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 nations collective history, and ourselves.
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.
Subjects
- Slavery > United States > History.
- Slaveholders > United States > History.
- African Americans > Social conditions > History.
- Historic sites > United States.
- Plantations > United States.
- Racism > United States > History.
- Discrimination.
- Ethnology > Study and teaching.
- Minorities > Study and teaching.
- African Americans > Study and teaching.