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SUMMARY:ABHM Book Club – How The Word Is Passed
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nABHM Book Club is back in 2025!\nTo begin, we will read How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith, a special selection in collaboration with the upcoming Building Legacies exhibit at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). To learn more about the exhibit, visit here. We will discuss the book in our next Zoom meeting, scheduled for Thursday, January 30th, at 6 PM.\nEveryone is welcome to join the ABHM Book Club meetings! If you want to learn more about it, please visit https://www.abhmuseum.org/book-club-discussion-guides/\nWe hope to see you there!\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAbout The Book\nStarting in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith takes readers on a powerful journey through monuments and landmarks—some that acknowledge the past honestly and others that obscure it. Through these sites, Smith weaves an intergenerational narrative that reveals how slavery has deeply influenced both the history of our nation and our collective identity.\nSmith explores the story of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia plantation, where the author of the Declaration of Independence espoused liberty while enslaving over 400 people. He delves into the Whitney Plantation, one of the few former plantations dedicated to preserving the experiences of the enslaved people who labored there. The narrative also examines Angola, a former plantation-turned-prison in Louisiana, where Black men work across 18,000 acres for little to no pay. And it looks at Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers.\nIn this deeply researched and moving exploration of slavery’s legacy, How the Word is Passed reveals how much of our nation’s history is hidden in plain sight—whether in the places we pass by every day, the celebrations of Juneteenth, or the streets of downtown Manhattan, where the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is deeply embedded.\nRich in scholarship and enlivened by the voices of people living today, Clint Smith’s debut nonfiction work offers profound insights into the role of memory and history in understanding our country’s past and present. It’s a powerful reflection on how history can guide us toward a more hopeful future.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n#1 New York Times Bestseller, Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, Reader’s Digest 50 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time, GQ’s 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century\nNamed one of the best books of the year by: The Washington Post • The New York Times • The Economist • The Boston Globe • Esquire • TIME • BBC • GoodReads • SheReads • BookPage • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus • Library Journal • Smithsonian • Shelf Awareness • Teen Vogue • The Root • The Christian Science Monitor • Entropy • Fathom • Amazon • Audible • Libro.fm • Barnes & Noble • the New York Public Library • the Chicago Public Library and more.\n****************\n\n\n
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