Twinkle Tits McGee’s Reviews > How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America > Status Update

“The Lost Cause was not an accident. It was not a mistake that history stumbled into. It was a deliberate, multifaceted, multi-field effort predicated on both misremembering and obfuscating what the confederacy stood for, and the role that slavery played in shaping this country.”

Just finished the chapter on Angola Prison. Woah Nellie, that was a doozy.

“I wanted voices to add texture to the images these men had become. I wanted them to be more than their bodies. More than flesh and fields and tools and emblems of a history no one here seemed willing to sit with. I did not want to remember them as silence.”

”Regardless of how these individuals fed the people that they owned, regardless of how they clothed them, regardless of if they never laid a hand on them, they were still sanctioning the system… You can’t say, ‘Hey, this person kidnapped your child, but they fed them well. They were a good person.’ How absurd does that sound?” -Yvonne Holden, Director of Operations, Whitney Plantation

Finished the chapter on the Monticello Plantation. His storytelling is very immersive and captivating. I feel like I’m being told the truth and not in a condescending way.