![]() ![]() Beginning in his hometown, New Orleans, Smith visits nine places that memorialize or distort their link to the legacy of slavery, from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. Gregarious, learned and engagingly open-minded, the book meets America where it is on the subject - which is to say, all over the place. but none have attempted an appraisal quite so expansive or intimate as “How the Word Is Passed,” a cross-country survey of slavery remembrance by the poet and Atlantic staff writer Clint Smith. ![]() Kytle and Blain Roberts, for instance, focuses on Charleston, S.C. ![]() A growing number of books feature such analyses - “Denmark Vesey’s Garden,” by Ethan J. Perhaps the only way to get a clearer picture is to visit individual communities, where the national culture war yields to quieter yet no less monumental struggles over the meaning of particular historic sites. ![]()
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