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The Resource How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America, Clint Smith
How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America, Clint Smith
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The item How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America, Clint Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charleston County Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 14 library branches.
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The item How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America, Clint Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charleston County Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 14 library branches.
- 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 nations collective history, and ourselves."--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 336 pages
- Contents
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- "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
- Isbn
- 9780316492935
- Label
- How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America
- Title
- How the word is passed
- Title remainder
- a reckoning with the history of slavery across America
- Statement of responsibility
- Clint Smith
- Language
- eng
- 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 nations collective history, and ourselves."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, Clint
- Dewey number
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- 306.3/620973
- 973/.0496073
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Slavery
- Slaveholders
- African Americans
- Historic sites
- Plantations
- Racism
- Discrimination
- Ethnology
- Minorities
- African Americans
- Label
- How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America, Clint Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- on1199125571
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 336 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316492935
- Lccn
- 2020949144
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1199125571
- Label
- How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America, Clint Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-320) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- on1199125571
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 336 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316492935
- Lccn
- 2020949144
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1199125571
Subject
- African Americans -- Study and teaching
- Discrimination
- Ethnology -- Study and teaching
- Historic sites
- Minorities -- Study and teaching
- Plantations
- African Americans -- Social conditions | History
- Slaveholders -- History
- Slavery -- History
- Racism
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