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

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when their ancestors showed the world the strength and resilience of their beautiful and brilliant minds

Before her papa is dragged away by soldiers

Their subversive methods continue to provide a model today

Animal Scientist

She uncovers something worse

as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson

warm and deeply sensual

and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward

one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape

to J is for Justice

vibrant illustrations capture the confidence