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100 1 _aSmith, Clint,
245 1 0 _aHow the word is passed :
_ba reckoning with the history of slavery across America /
_cClint Smith.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bLittle, Brown and Company,
_c2021.
264 4 _c©2021
300 _axiii, 336 pages ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent.
336 _astill image
_bsti
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a"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.
520 _a'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.
650 7 _aEnslavement
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
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650 7 _aEnslavers
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
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650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aHistoric sites
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPlantations
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aRacism
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aDiscrimination
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aEthnology
_xStudy and teaching.
650 0 _aMinorities
_xStudy and teaching.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xStudy and teaching.
650 0 _aHistory.
650 0 _aBlack Studies (Global)
655 7 _aInstructional and educational works.
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