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How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America

Smith, Clint 1988- (author.).

Summary: "'This book is Clint Smith's contemporary portrait of the United States 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" --

Record details

  • ISBN: 0316492930
  • ISBN: 9780316492935
  • ISBN: 9780316492928
  • ISBN: 0316492922
  • ISBN: 9780316269476
  • ISBN: 0316269476
  • Physical Description: print
    xiii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York ; Boston ; London : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) and index.
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" : 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.
Subject:
Smith, Clint 1988- Travel United States
Slavery United States History
Slaveholders United States History
African Americans Social conditions History
Racism United States History
Historic sites Southern States
Plantations Southern States History
African Americans Social conditions
Racism
Southern States Race relations History
Southern States History, Local
United States Race relations History
Genre:
Local histories.
Travel writing.

Available copies

  • 67 of 74 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Jacksonville Main Library 306.362 SMI (Text) 36015000052106 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 08/11/2026

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