a reckoning with the history of slavery across America Smith, Clint creator author. text bibliography nyu New York Little, Brown and Company 2021 First edition. monographic eng

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xiii, 336 pages ; 25 cm "'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."-- "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. Clint Smith. Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) and index. n-usu-- n-us--- Smith, Clint Travel Southern States Slavery United States History Slaveholders United States History African Americans Social conditions History Historic sites Southern States Plantations Southern States History Southern States Race relations History Southern States History, Local E441 .S654 2021 973.0496073 SMI 9780316492935 2020949144 DLC 201027 20220825160457.0 21774504 eng