0349701172 
Hardback How the word is passed : a journey across the country that black America built / Clint Smith.
Publication year: 2021
Format: Hardback
Publisher: London : Dialogue Books,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780349701172 (hbk.) :
Notes:
In its simplest distillation, 'How the Word is Passed' is the story of Clint Smith's visits to seven places that the work and lives of enslaved people built. Those places are Monticello in Virginia; Angola Prison in Louisiana; the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana; Blandford Cemetery in Virginia; Galveston, Texas, where the first Juneteenth was celebrated; Wall Street; and Goree Island, Senegal. 'How the Word is Passed' is much more than a travelogue. What Clint Smith does is show us how the history of slavery is not only relevant today but alive today. He does this by revealing how slavery is hidden in plain sight, introducing us to the men and women who have devoted their lives to understanding what so many of us do not know and, finally, by letting us walk in his shoes as he learns these truths.
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336 pages ; 24 cm
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