How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America
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New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
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Large print edition, First edition.
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xiv, 480 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
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San Luis Obispo Library - Large Print Nonfiction
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Published
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large print edition, First edition.
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-480).
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Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on 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 nation?s collective history, and ourselves. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. 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 for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers.

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