How the word is passed A reckoning with the history of slavery across America
Large print - 2021
'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.
Saved in:
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- Published
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New York, NY :
Little, Brown and Company
2021.
- Edition
- Large print edition ; First edition
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- xiv, 480 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-480)
- ISBN
- 9780316278744
- Main Author
- "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.