How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America

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How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America

Title remainder

a reckoning with the history of slavery across America

Statement of responsibility

Clint Smith

Creator

• Smith, Clint

Subject

• Audiobooks -- Compact disc
• Historic sites -- Compact disc
• Monuments -- Compact disc
• African Americans -- History -- Compact disc
• Racism -- History -- Compact disc
• Slavery -- History -- Compact disc
• Plantations -- Compact disc

Genre

• Compact disc

Language

eng

Summary

• Poet and educator Clint Smith explores the places where the history of slavery has been preserved, if not fully reckoned with. Included are New Orleans, Monticello Plantation, Angola Prison, Blandford Cemetery, and others hidden in plain view. This book offers a new understanding of the role that memory and history can play in understanding our country
• "'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."--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

BLACP

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not applicable

Format of music

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Literary text for sound recordings

history

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Read by the author

Target audience

adult

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not applicable