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

A young boy sent to the electric chair for a crime a didn’t commit… only to survive and then a year later be put to death by electrocution…

“If in Germany today, there were prison built on top of a former concentration, camp, and that prison disproportionally incarcerated Jewish people, it would rightly provoke outrage throughout the world. I imagine there would be international summits on closing such an egregious institution. And yet in the United States, such a collective outrage at this plantation turned prison is relatively muted.”

“John believes that it is not enough for people to write about slave free from the towers of academia if so, many of those works never reach a wide audience. He thinks the Whitney offers something different, something more dynamic. “I’ve seen some of the greatest imperial studies, and they sit on library shelves gathering dust. Nobody reads them. We want to go to the masses, man we want to go to the mass.”

The sugar industry, is a result of slavery. It is capitalism. Slavery meant rape for the slave.

This might be a first 5/5 stars book I’ve read in a while.