How the word is passed, a reckoning with the history of slavery across America, Clint Smith
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Label
How the word is passed, a reckoning with the history of slavery across America, Clint Smith
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-480)
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
How the word is passed
Medium
text large print
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1242978997
Responsibility statement
Clint Smith
Sub title
a reckoning with the history of slavery across America
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 nations collective history, and ourselves
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:" GoreĢe Island -- "I lived it:" epilogue -- About this project
Target audience
adult
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Plantations -- United States
- Racism -- United States -- History
- Minorities + Study and teaching
- Instructional and educational works
- Slaveholders [DNU] -- United States -- History
- African Americans + Study and teaching
- Enslavers -- United States -- History
- Slavery -- United States -- History
- Historic sites -- United States
- Large print books
- Ethnology + Study and teaching
- Discrimination
- African Americans + Social conditions
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- Plantations -- United States
- Racism -- United States -- History
- Minorities + Study and teaching
- Instructional and educational works
- Slaveholders [DNU] -- United States -- History
- African Americans + Study and teaching
- Enslavers -- United States -- History
- Slavery -- United States -- History
- Historic sites -- United States
- Large print books
- Ethnology + Study and teaching
- Discrimination
- African Americans + Social conditions
- Content2
- Author1
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