| 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 nation's collective history, and ourselves."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) and index. |
| Subject |
Smith, Clint -- Travel -- Southern States.
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Smith, Clint. |
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Travel. |
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Southern States. |
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
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Slavery. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Slaveholders -- United States -- History.
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Slaveholders. |
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- History.
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
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Historic sites -- Southern States.
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Historic sites. |
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Plantations -- Southern States -- History.
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Plantations. |
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Southern States -- Race relations -- History.
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Race relations. |
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Southern States -- History, Local.
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Local history. |
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African Americans. |
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African Americans -- Study and teaching. |
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Discrimination. |
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Ethnology -- Study and teaching. |
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Minorities -- Study and teaching. |
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Racism. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Title |
Reckoning with the history of slavery across America |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Smith, Clint. How the word is passed. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021 9780316628587 (OCoLC)1255713554 |
| ISBN |
0316492930 (hardcover) |
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9780316492935 (hardcover) |
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0316269476 |
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9780316269476 |
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0316278742 (large print) |
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9780316278744 (large print) |
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9780316492911 (ebook) |
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