As a result, the revelations in the How the Word Is Passed weren’t likely as shocking to me as they would have been to someone who went through a typical US education curriculum, for instance. I feel this is important to share because, while I have been exceptionally interested in Canadian history and took many courses on that subject throughout high school and university, American history has always been somewhat of a gauzy patchwork of random details in my mind. Therefore, aside from knowing, for instance, that Thomas Jefferson was a president, all I knew about him – until Hamilton came out at least – was that he was “the Louisiana Purchase guy.” Speaking of Hamilton, until reading this book, that musical (and the rabbit holes I fell into as I became curious about some of the lyrics) was essentially my main source of American history from that period. Though I know we touched on American history in high school, it was from the perspective of how it affected us here in Canada. The reason is that, as far as I can tell, this book was written by an American mainly for an American audience. To preface this audiobook review of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across Americaby Clint Smith, I think it’s important to share a tiny amount of my own background. Be fore I Start My How the Word Is Passed Review… This book recording was read by the author, Clint Smith.
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