How the word is passed a reckoning with the history of slavery across America
'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...
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2021.
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| 300 | |a xiii, 336 pages ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 520 | |a '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. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a "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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Slavery |z United States |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Slaveholders |z United States |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans |x Social conditions |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Historic sites |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Plantations |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Racism |z United States |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Discrimination. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Ethnology |x Study and teaching. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Minorities |x Study and teaching. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans |x Study and teaching. | |
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