Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the poetry collectionCounting Descent.
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In How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith visits eight places central to the history of slavery in America, including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation and Louisiana's Angola prison.
Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the poetry collectionCounting Descent.
Carletta Girma/Courtesy of Broadside
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