How the Word Is Passed A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

eBook - 2021

This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on 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. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney P...lantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former...

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Published
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Main Author
Clint Smith
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Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ISBN9780316492911
ASINB08KQ4W18H
Release Date6/1/2021
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780316492911
Release Date6/1/2021