Book HackHow the Word Is PassedBy Clint Smith
In a Nutshell
Poet and journalist Clint Smith travels across the U.S. and beyond to provide a historical overview of slavery and its defining role in creating modern America.
Favorite Quote
The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it ... This history is in our soil, it is in our policies, and it must, too, be in our memories.
Clint Smith
Introduction
Plantations, monuments, prisons, and cemeteries across the American landscape mark our understanding of this nation.
The education system may provide us with a perfunctory understanding of America, but how are its stories told? Who is at their center?
In this 2021 book, The Atlantic staff writer and poet Clint Smith traverses the U.S. and beyond, examining and linking the foundational sites of slavery with their contemporary iterations.
How the Word is Passed is a critical examination of the elementary myths that constitute the U.S. It was longlisted for the National Book Award, while The New York Times and The Economist named it among 2021's best releases.
How the Word is Passed forensically unearths and analyzes histories of slavery, from the Transatlantic trade to its modern-day forms.
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