Unfortunately, some institutions and customs are still a toxic product of our past doings. We’ll explore how the world remembers slavery, but also how it often forgets about this part of our history.
How the World Is Passed by Clint Smith highlights the uncomfortable truths about America’s slavery by taking the reader through nine historical sites, starting with New Orleans. For the USA, people will always associate the word history with slavery, whether they like it or not. A nation that doesn’t value its history will fail to evolve and therefore will stagnate or even move backward. History has a way of repeating itself, especially when people forget about it and its lessons.
1-Sentence-Summary: How the Word Is Passed talks about the cult of slavery that overshadows a large part of America’s history and how past experiences often dictate the future, or in our case, even the present, which is why we as a people should look into our history and learn from our ancestor’s mistakes to build a better world.
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