How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

*PLEASE NOTE: You are purchasing this title as a donation to Wisconsin Books to Prisoners. Should you wish to purchase this title not as a donation but for yourself, please send an email indicating this to bookcenter@woodlandpattern.org. Author: Clint Smith Publisher: Back Bay Books (2022) This important and timely bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on 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 nation's collective history, and ourselves.It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only