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

Clint Smith (Goodreads Author)

Ashley's review

Feb 23, 2024

it was amazing

bookshelves: audiobooks, read-harder-challenge-2024, tbr-jar-picks, class-gender-race, non-fiction, history, travel

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Reading Progress

June 1, 2021 – Shelved

June 1, 2021 – Shelved as: to-read

February 19, 2024 – Started Reading

February 19, 2024 – Shelved as: audiobooks

February 19, 2024 –

1.0% "sure let's just drop another book onto the currently reading pile"

February 21, 2024 –

13.0% "white people are so embarrassing sometimes 🫣 DON’T HUG OR CRY ON THE BLACK TOUR GUIDES YOU IDIOTS"

February 21, 2024 –

18.0% "This book is like if Assassination Vacation was written by a Black man instead of a white woman, and instead of dead presidential grave sites, he visited historical sites relevant to the history and cultural legacy of slavery."

February 21, 2024 –

29.0% "Had no idea the Louisiana Purchase was the direct result of the Haitian slave revolt (Napoleon needed $$$$$$)."

February 21, 2024 – Finished Reading

February 22, 2024 –

49.0% "Clint Smith is being much more reasonable in tone about all this Confederacy stuff than I am capable of being. I might have an aneurysm thinking about all this bullshit."

February 22, 2024 –

53.0% "He is literally just copy and pasting the declarations of secession from all the states, and they are all explicitly stating their actions are due to protecting their "property," aka the enslaved people they have decided to own. bUt sTaTeS RiGhTs.

STFU"

February 22, 2024 –

71.0% "I can tell you right now that this book is going to be five stars, and I think every American should read it."

February 22, 2024 –

75.0% "What a great week for me to have moved all my money away from banks to a credit union. All the banks existing today (or their predecessors) once used slaves—PEOPLE—as collateral, regularly."

February 23, 2024 –

90.0% "Hey, I'm about to finish a book!"

February 23, 2024 – Shelved as: read-harder-challenge-2024

February 23, 2024 – Shelved as: tbr-jar-picks

May 21, 2024 – Shelved as: class-gender-race

May 21, 2024 – Shelved as: non-fiction

May 21, 2024 – Shelved as: history

May 21, 2024 – Shelved as: travel