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How the Word is Passed : : a Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

Smith, Clint. Large Type - 2021 Large Print 306.362 Sm, Adult Book / Large Print / Nonfiction / History / Smith, Clint 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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Call Number: Large Print 306.362 Sm, Adult Book / Large Print / Nonfiction / History / Smith, Clint
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"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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