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

where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father

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infusing this lyrical exploration of -America with magical realism and Vodou culture

all that the residents had achieved was lost

Soon afterward

In other words

Danger lurks in Orisha

and Rosa Parks

Who killed Korey Fields

And with Nanny at their center

the young man has a very important question to answer: What is worth living for

It's a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane