![]() ![]() His originality lies in his lively inclusion of a variety of voices on race and his graphic depictions of often neglected historic places. Merging memoir, travelogue, and history, Smith fashions an affecting, often lyrical narrative of witness marred occasionally by overstatement. He gives us history in poignant journalistic vignettes as he recounts visits he made to southern plantations, a maximum-security prison, a Confederate cemetery, a Juneteenth celebration, slavery sites in New York City, and an African point of departure for enslaved people transported west on the Middle Passage. ![]() It’s an unsettling story that Smith, an Atlantic staff writer and a poet, tackles unconventionally. In How the Word Is Passed, Clint Smith evokes the horrors of slavery, from the discovery of the New World through the Civil War, and the widespread victimization of blacks since then. ![]()
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