Date of Publication: 2021

Authors:

  • Clint Smith
Cover of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

“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.” --Provided by publisher.

Citations

Smith, Clint. How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2021.