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Smith, Clint.
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Blacks -- United States -- History.
Monuments -- United States.
Racism -- United States -- History.
Discrimination -- History.
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Smith, Clint.
Blacks -- United States -- History.
Monuments -- United States.
Racism -- United States -- History.
Discrimination -- History.
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How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Clint Smith.
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Smith, Clint.
Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Call #:
973
.0496073
S644h
Subjects
Blacks -- United States -- History.
Monuments -- United States.
Racism -- United States -- History.
Discrimination -- History.
ISBN:
9780316492935 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiii, 336 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) and index.
Summary:
"Poet and contributor to 'The Atlantic' Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Clint 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. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving over 400 people on the premises. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola Prison in Louisiana, a former plantation named for the country from which most of its enslaved people arrived and which has since become one of the most gruesome maximum-security prisons in the world. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers."--Goodreads.
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