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How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning
with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith
In a deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, the book illustrates how some of our country’s most essential stories are hidden in plain view. From Monticello, in Charlottesville,VA, to the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan, the author skillfully weaves interviews with scholarship and personal observation, asking, “How different might our country look if all of us fully understood what had happened here?” Written in 2021 and 283 pages long.
Every reader of the book, club member or not, is welcome to join our ZOOM discussion session, Wednesday, March 15 at 1 pm. To receive a link to this session, please sign up through the LWV website, www.lwvjeffco.org. Our page is under the Get Involved tab. If you have trouble registering, please email Marilyn Brown directly (marilbrown@aol.com). The day or two before March 15, you will receive your link to the session. We encourage everyone, LWV member or not, to join us for the Zoom discussion.
Our April book, Cuba - An American History, author, is a historian at New York University who was born in Cuba, and packs “five centuries [of U.S./Cuba interrelationships] into concise chapters brimming with detail and page-turning momentum," according to the Guardian review, bringing her story right up to the present. Is it time to rethink the U.S. relationship with Cuba?
An e-copy of the full schedule of book choices for our 2022-2023 season is available to download on the League website. To be added to our book club mailing list, email Marilyn Brown at marilbrown@aol.com.
Marilyn Brown
Book Club Co-coordinator
LWV Jeffco
Location
ZOOM meeting
USA
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