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History. Nostalgia. Memory. Myth. Tradition. Gaps. An exploration of each that takes readers from America to the West Coast of Africa
Smith visits seven communities and invites readers to tour a wide variety of plantations, cemeteries, monuments, and museums with him. He talks with those who give the tours and those who happen to be participating with him. I was familiar with some of the sites but even if familiar, the questions Smith poses, the conversations has, and the reflections he shares ch ...more
Smith visits seven communities and invites readers to tour a wide variety of plantations, cemeteries, monuments, and museums with him. He talks with those who give the tours and those who happen to be participating with him. I was familiar with some of the sites but even if familiar, the questions Smith poses, the conversations has, and the reflections he shares ch ...more
Our country is in a moment, at an inflection point, in which there is a willingness to more fully grapple with the legacy of slavery and how it shaped the world we live in today. But it seems that the more purposefully some places have attempted to tell the truth about their proximity to slavery and its aftermath, the more staunchly other places have refused. I wanted to visit some of these places--those telling the truth, those running from it, and those doing something in between--in order to
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An absolute must-read in order to understand the history of slavery and the United States. The author presents information factually rather than spewing rhetoric. He approaches the subject matter carefully, openly admitting dichotomies of information as well as his own feeling.
Beautiful. Haunting. Reflective. Absolutely unparalleled as far as nonfiction goes-it reads like fiction, feels like poetry, and hurts like the truth that it is. This should be required text for every high school student in the US. And everyone else.
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