How the Word Is Passed
Read this summary in any language — built-in translation in the reader.
What’s it about?
A poet-journalist travels to nine sites of slavery's legacy, revealing how America's memory of its past shapes its present.
You’ll learn
- How slavery built America's founding ideals
- The Lost Cause myth's enduring power
- Slavery's link to mass incarceration
- The global scale of the slave trade