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How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America / Clint Smith.
'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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316492935
- ISBN: 0316492930
- Physical Description: xiii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | "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:" Goree Island -- "I lived it:" epilogue -- About this project. |
| Awards Note: | A Junior Library Guild Selection. |
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| Genre: | Instructional and educational works. |
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- 46 of 46 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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- 1 current hold with 46 total copies.
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| Albright Memorial Library | 973.04 SMITH (Text) | 50686015734937 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library | 973 SMI (Text) | 37268003103710 | AHMFL Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Altoona Area Public Library | 973.0496073 SMI (Text) | 33240004883313 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bernville Area Community Library | 306.362 SMI (Text) | 33249023878659 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
| Boone Area Library | 306.362 SMI (Text) | 33249023589413 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
| Cambria County Library | 973.0496 S644h (Text) | 85131001766444 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Dalton Community Library | 973 SMITH (Text) | 50689090005256 | Browsing | Available | - |
| Dillsburg Area Public Library | Adults 973.04 SMI Nonfiction (Text) | 34001001399847 | Adult Area | Available | - |
| Ebensburg Public Library | 973.04 SMI (Text) | 31814700840900 | EBNM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Emmaus Public Library | YA 973.04 SMIT (Text) | 36446002046251 | Young Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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