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| Title Statement | How the word is passed: a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Clint Smith. |
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| Author | Smith, Clint |
| Publication | New York: Little, Brown and Company,2021. |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | xiii, 336 pages ; |
| ISBN | 0316492930 9780316492935 |
| Other Number | 4033997 |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index. |
| 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. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Racism--History--United States |
| Plantations--United States | |
| Historic sites--United States | |
| African Americans--Social conditions--History | |
| Slaveholders--History--United States | |
| Discrimination--History | |
| Slavery--History--United States | |
