![]() ![]() 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. “ Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nationīeginning 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. *click on photos to view original source. Genre: Nonfiction / History / Social Justice ![]()
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