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
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316492935
- 0316492930
- Slavery -- United States -- History
- Slaveholders -- United States -- History
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- History
- 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
- 306.3/620973Â 973/.0496073Â 23
- E441Â .S654 2021
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| Book | Parsons Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Parsons Public Library | Adult Books | 973 S644 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34315000911901 | ||
| Book | Weir Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Weir Public Library | Adult Books | 306.3Smith (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 35322000112513 |
Includes bibliographical references 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 nations collective history, and ourselves.
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