Clint Smith s Nonfiction Debut Reckons with History By Louisa Ermelino | Jan 22, 2021
The massacre at a Black church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015 was the beginning of Clint Smith thinking about the legacy of the Confederacy, but when four monuments associated with the Confederacy were removed in his hometown of New Orleans in 2017, he started to write.
How the Word Is Passed (June, Little, Brown), his debut nonfiction book, looks at how different places relate (or don’t) to their connection with slavery.
“When the statues came down,” Smith says, “I was watching the architecture of my childhood coming down and wondered about what it meant to grow up with all these homages to the oppressors of enslaved people. I thought about how these statues were not just statues, but memorialized the lives of slave owners and how history was reflected in different places.”
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