How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America Clint Smith.
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TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 336 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316492935Other title: Reckoning with the history of slavery across AmericaSubject(s): 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, LocalDDC classification: 973.0496073 LOC classification: E441 | .S654 2021| Item type | Current location | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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