How the word is passed
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- Titel: How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Clint Smith
- Person(en): Smith, Clint [Verfasser*in]
- Ausgabe: First edition
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: xiii, 336 Seiten ; 25 cm
- Erschienen: New York Boston London : Little, Brown and Company, June 2021
- ISBN/Preis: 978-0-316-49293-5 hardcover : EUR 29.00
- Schlagwörter: USA ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte 1619-1877
- Link(s): Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and index
- Signatur: LERNEN und ARBEITEN > Geografie und Geschichte
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Inhalt: "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. '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
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