02631cam a2200469 i 4500 21774504 NUST 20220825160457.0 201027s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng 2020949144 9780316492935 (hardcover) 9780316492911 (ebook) Azhar DLC eng rda DLC pcc n-usu-- n-us--- E441 .S654 2021 973.0496073 SMI Smith, Clint, author. 97284 How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America Clint Smith. Reckoning with the history of slavery across America First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021 xiii, 336 pages ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) and index. "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."-- Provided by publisher. Smith, Clint Travel Southern States. 97285 Slavery United States History. 97286 Slaveholders United States History. 97287 African Americans Social conditions History. 97288 Historic sites Southern States. 97289 Plantations Southern States History. 97290 Southern States Race relations History. 97291 Southern States History, Local. 97292 7 cbc orignew 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg ddc LC 591014 591014 0 0 ddc 0 0 CL CL LC 2022-08-15 973.0496073 SMI LC-337 2022-08-15 2022-08-15 REF