@article{1397077, author = {Smith, Clint,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1397077}, title = {How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America /}, 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 nation's collective history, and ourselves."--}, recid = {1397077}, pages = {1 online resource}, }