Tonight I am hosting the first meeting of the Civil War Memory book group for this site’s paid subscribers. We are meeting to discuss Clint Smith’s book, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.
As I prepare some notes and questions for this gathering, I’ve been thinking about the book’s title. It’s so evocative of …
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