How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Clint Smith.
'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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316278744
- ISBN: 0316278742
- Physical Description: xiv, 480 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "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:" Goree Island -- "I lived it:" epilogue -- About this project. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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New Oxford Library | LP 973.0496 SMITH (Text) | 35740635737299 | Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |