Ashley’s Reviews > How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America > Status Update

Hey, I'm about to finish a book!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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