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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

How the Word Is Passed

In two thousand 17 i was watching the statues of several confederate monuments come down, and thinking about what it meant that i grew up in a majority black city. The book is entitled how the word is passed because it's taken from aquote from a descendant of a black enslaved family at monticello. These stories became heirlooms that were passed down through generations that helped give us a sense of who our families were, where they came from.

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