Smith, Clint, <br/><br/>
How the word is passed :  a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / 
Clint Smith. 
 - First edition. 
 - xiii, 336 pages ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>"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. 
<br/><br/> '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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780316492935 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020949144 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slavery--History.--United States<br/>Slaveholders--History.--United States<br/>African Americans--Social conditions--History.<br/>Historic sites--United States.<br/>Plantations--United States.<br/>Racism--History.--United States<br/>Discrimination--History.--United States<br/>Ethnology--Study and teaching.<br/>Minorities--Study and teaching.<br/>African Americans--Study and teaching.<br/>History.<br/>Black Studies (Global).
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Instructional and educational works.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E441  / .S654 2021