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Author Smith, Clint, author.

Title How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Clint Smith.

Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.0496 SMITH    Check Shelf
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.0496 SMITH    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  306.362 SMITH    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  306.362 SMI    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.0496 SMITH    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  973.0496 SMITH    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  973.0496 SMITH    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  973.0496 SMITH    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  973 SMITH, CLINT    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  973.0496 SMI    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xiii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
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:" Gorée Island -- "I lived it:" epilogue -- About this project.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) and index.
Subject History.
Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
Discrimination. (OCoLC)fst00894985
Minorities -- Study and teaching.
Historic sites. (OCoLC)fst00957846
Minorities -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst01023238
Discrimination -- United States -- History.
Plantations -- United States.
Plantations. (OCoLC)fst01065800
African Americans -- Social conditions -- History.
HISTORY / African American.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Ethnology -- Study and teaching.
Historic sites -- United States.
Genre/Form Instructional and educational works.
Subject African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
Ethnology -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst00916166
History. (OCoLC)fst00958235
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
African Americans -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst00799707
Racism -- United States -- History.
Black Studies (Global).
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination.
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
African Americans -- Study and teaching.
Local Subject Enslavers -- United States -- History.
Subject Slavery -- United States -- History.
Slaveholders. (OCoLC)fst01120418
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies.
Slaveholders -- United States -- History.
ISBN 9780316492935 (hardcover)
0316492930 (hardcover)
9780316269476 (signed edition)
9780316278744 (large print)
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