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\nThe Atlantic staff writer and poet Clint Smith&rsquo\;s r evealing\, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation.
\ n&ldquo\;We need this book.&rdquo\; &ndash\;Ibram X. Kendi\, #1 New Yor k Times bestselling author of How to be an Anti-Racist
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Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans\, Clint Smith leads the reader through an unforget table tour of monuments and landmarks&mdash\;those that are honest about t he past and those that are not&mdash\;that offer an intergenerational stor y of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation&rsquo\;s collectiv e history\, and ourselves.
\nIt is the story of the Monticello Plant ation in Virginia\, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espous ing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving over 400 people on the pre mises. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation\, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people wh ose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola\, a former plan tation-turned maximum security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Bla ck men who work across the 18\,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery\, the final resting place of tens of th ousands of Confederate soldiers.
\nIn a deeply researched and transp orting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries o f American history\, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our co untry&rsquo\;s most essential stories are hidden in plain view-whether in places we might drive by on our way to work\, holidays such as Juneteenth\ , or entire neighborhoods&mdash\;like downtown Manhattan&mdash\;on which t he brutal history of the trade in enslaved men\, women and children has be en deeply imprinted.
\nInformed by scholarship and brought alive by the story of people living today\, Clint Smith&rsquo\;s debut work of nonf iction is a landmark work of reflection and insight that offers a new unde rstanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making s ense of our country and how it has come to be.
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