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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Smith, Clint, 1988- author.
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
Slaveholders -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- History.
Racism -- United States -- History.
Discrimination -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Study and teaching.
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How the word is pass...
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How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Clint Smith.
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Smith, Clint, 1988- author.
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Subjects
Slavery -- United States -- History.
Slaveholders -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- History.
Racism -- United States -- History.
Discrimination -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Study and teaching.
ISBN:
9780316492935 (hardcover) :
0316492930 (hardcover)
Description:
xiii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
"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.
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'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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