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

How the Word Is Passed

A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

2021 • 352 pages

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I had high hopes for this, and it met them. A very thought-provoking book. I very much wish I could convince my family to read it and perhaps they'd slightly understand why I love and study history. (Instead, they just insist “history doesn't change” and insist that the heavily racist pro-slavery story they were given, and have sought ever since because it's familiar and therefore “safe” must be the truth.)

February 9, 2023