ISBN:
9780349701189
,
9780316492935
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 336 Seiten
,
25 cm
Edition:
First edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3620973
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Sklaverei
;
USA
;
Slavery / United States / History
;
Slaveholders / United States / History
;
African Americans / Social conditions / History
;
Historic sites / United States
;
Plantations / United States
;
Racism / United States / History
;
Discrimination / United States / History
;
Ethnology / Study and teaching
;
Minorities / Study and teaching
;
African Americans / Study and teaching
;
HISTORY / African American
;
HISTORY / United States / General
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies
;
African Americans
;
African Americans / Social conditions
;
African Americans / Study and teaching
;
Discrimination
;
Ethnology / Study and teaching
;
Historic sites
;
Minorities / Study and teaching
;
Plantations
;
Racism
;
Slaveholders
;
Slavery
;
United States
;
History / African American
;
History
;
Instructional and educational works
;
USA
;
Sklaverei
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"'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."
Description / Table of Contents:
"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
