![]() ![]() Starting with Monticello Plantation brings the contradictions of slavery in America into immediate focus. The locations represent a judicious cross-section of slavery and its many legacies in contemporary America. ![]() More than that, they demonstrate how people in the country reacted and continue to react to the facts of slavery. Along with a prologue in New Orleans, the city where he grew up, and an epilogue of talks with his surviving grandparents, these seven locations - chosen from the dozens that Smith saw as research for the book - show important historical aspects of slavery in America. In How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith recounts his visits to seven locations as part of what he calls in the book’s subtitle “A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.” Monticello Plantation. ![]()
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