How the Word Is Passed
Book by Clint Smith
Originally published: June 1, 2021
Author: Clint Smith
Genres: History, Guidebook, and Travel literature
Pages: 352
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This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and ...
It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned maximum security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land ...
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This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and ...
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Jun 2, 2021 · Clint Smith seeks out troubling history, including white supremacy, white violence — and the erasure of the oppression of Black Americans ...
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Thoughtful, beautifully written, powerfully felt—Clint Smith's How the Word is Passed is a meditation on how slavery, its history, and its legacy is reckoned ...
Nov 30, 2021 · The book's standout quality is the range and sincerity of its encounters. Smith walks with tourists, guides, teachers, scholars, ex-convicts, ...
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This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
Dec 29, 2022 · How the Word is Passed takes readers on a cross-country journey to sites that, just below the surface, harbor hidden histories of slavery. A ...
Oct 28, 2020 · It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose ...
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A travelogue, a history, a quest, a warning and a call for a reckoning that the history of slavery is the history of our country, central and defining to ...