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- Smith explores slavery’s impact on the present as much as on the past. He takes readers to places such as modern-day New York City on Wall Street, where the country’s second-largest slave market once stood on Wall Street, to show how the story of slavery is still being debated, distorted and denied.
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Jun 1, 2021 · In How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith visits eight places central to the history of slavery in America, including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation and Louisiana's Angola prison.
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From Southern plantations to prisons, from memorials to...
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Aug 27, 2021 · The ongoing attempt to criminalize the teaching about past and present atrocities and inequities associated with racism in America provides a flashpoint to reenter a much older and more nuanced ...
Oct 2, 2021 · Smith’s book is a systematic takedown of many myths about slavery, including one that the Whitney exhibit disproves – that most slaves just passively accepted their fate. “From the moment Black...
Jul 16, 2021 · Using several locations in the U.S. and one in Africa as a roadmap, Smith’s narrative traces the ways in which slavery was central to the nation’s founding and how it both continues to shape the national landscape and drive the impulse to remember, to memorialize, to distort, or to simply forget.
Jun 2, 2021 · From Southern plantations to prisons, from memorials to cemeteries, Smith reckons with the truths and lies of slavery and race that are woven into the contemporary fabric of our society.
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Mar 29, 2023 · For that book, he visited eight places central to the history of slavery in America to better understand the distortions in the way the history of slavery was taught to him and to most...
Jun 4, 2021 · Clint Smith, an educator, poet, and staff writer for the Atlantic, grew up in New Orleans surrounded by the remnants of the Confederacy and slavery. He attended a middle school named after Robert Mills Lusher, a Confederate figure and segregationist, and walked roads like Robert E. Lee Boulevard.
