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Author Smith, Clint, author.

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

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2021].
©2021
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2068062~S1
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Description xiii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 nations collective history, and ourselves." -- Description provided by publisher.
Subject Slavery -- United States -- History.
Slaveholders -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Historic sites -- United States.
Plantations -- United States.
Racism -- United States -- History.
Discrimination -- United States -- History.
Ethnology -- Study and teaching.
Minorities -- Study and teaching.
African Americans -- Study and teaching.
History.
Genre Instructional and educational works.
ISBN 9780316492935 (hc.)
0316492930 (hc.)
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