It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned maximum security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving over 400 people on the premises. Named one of the best books of the year by: The Washington Post īeginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks-those that are honest about the past and those that are not-that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves. Longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction Longlisted for the Brooklyn Library Book Prize New York Public Library 10 Best Adult Books of 2021įinalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction TIME Magazine 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 GQ’s 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner of the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
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