How the word is passed: a reckoning with the history of slavery across America
Clint Smith
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- First edition
- Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021
Availability
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- Summary:
- "'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]
- Table of 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.
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Clint, author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Main Work:
- Subjects:
- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) and index.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
- Call Numbers:
- E441 .S654 2021
- ISBNs:
- 0316492930 (hardcover)
9780316492935 (hardcover)
0316269476 (signed edition)
9780316269476 (signed edition)
0316278742 (large print) [Invalid]
9780316278744 (large print) [Invalid]
9780316492911 (ebook) [Invalid] - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2020949144
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1199125571
