How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America /
Smith, Clint 1988-
How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Reckoning with the history of slavery across America Clint Smith. - First edition. - New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. - xiii, 336 Pages ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) 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 nation's collective history, and ourselves."--
9780316492935
Smith, Clint, 1988- --Travel--Southern States.
Slavery--History.--United States
Esclavitud--Historia --Estados Unidos
Slaveholders--History.--United States
African Americans--Social conditions--History.
Afroamericanos--Condiciones sociales--Historia
Plantaciones --Condiciones sociales
Historic sites--Southern States.
Plantations--History.--Southern States
Southern States--Race relations--History.
Southern States--History, Local.
002 E 441 / S642h 2021
973/.0496073
How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Reckoning with the history of slavery across America Clint Smith. - First edition. - New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. - xiii, 336 Pages ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) 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 nation's collective history, and ourselves."--
9780316492935
Smith, Clint, 1988- --Travel--Southern States.
Slavery--History.--United States
Esclavitud--Historia --Estados Unidos
Slaveholders--History.--United States
African Americans--Social conditions--History.
Afroamericanos--Condiciones sociales--Historia
Plantaciones --Condiciones sociales
Historic sites--Southern States.
Plantations--History.--Southern States
Southern States--Race relations--History.
Southern States--History, Local.
002 E 441 / S642h 2021
973/.0496073