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How the Word Is Passed

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How the Word Is Passed
Full titleHow the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
AuthorClint Smith
Published2021
Pages344
RecommendedOnce
BuyAmazon
Why it’s on the listSmith visits eight places that hold American slavery in their soil — Monticello, Angola prison, Blandford Cemetery, Gorée Island — and reads how each one chooses to tell or not tell the story.

Where I heard about it

  • Carrie (@carriereadsbooks) — in a BookTok video; my own label for the list was books to prepare for a Trump presidency.

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