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How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Clint Smith.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection E185 .S58123 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Clint, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- Discrimination.
- History.
- Plantations.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Slaveholders.
- United States.
- Slaveholders--United States--History.
- African Americans--Social conditions--History.
- African Americans.
- Historic sites--United States.
- Historic sites.
- Plantations--United States.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- Discrimination--United States--History.
- Ethnology--Study and teaching.
- Ethnology.
- Minorities--Study and teaching.
- Minorities.
- African Americans--Study and teaching.
- Genre:
- History / African American.
- History.
- Instructional and educational works.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
- 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."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: "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"
- - Goree Island.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780316492935
- 0316492930
- OCLC:
- 1199125571
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