Slavery Wasn’t ‘Long Ago’: A Writer Exposes The Disconnect In How We Tell History

Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent.

In How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith visits eight places central to the history of slavery in America, including Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and Louisiana’s Angola prison.

(Image credit: Carletta Girma/Courtesy of Broadside)

In How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith visits eight places central to the history of slavery in America, including Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and Louisiana’s Angola prison.