![]() In conversation with Kyera Singleton, executive director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters, in Medford, Massachusetts, Smith said his book is a recognition of our physical and temporal proximity to the system of slavery. ’20, during a Harvard discussion Tuesday about his new book, “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.” “But embedded within that are a whole host of complexities that inform how we understand. That’s a clear binary: It was bad and not good,” said Smith, Ed.M. “There can be moral clarity, which is to say, slavery was a horrific institution. ![]() ![]() America prefers tales based on simple binaries - good and bad, black and white, red and blue states - that can be easily digested and understood, said Clint Smith, author, poet, and staff writer at The Atlantic. ![]()
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