Reviews tagging 'Child death'

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

19 reviews

wifeslife's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Sexual violence, Rape, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Genocide, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Child death, Death, Deportation, Violence, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism

brynalexa's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Poetic, powerful, and thought-provoking. Filled in some gaps in my education while inspiring me to seek out more information on the world’s cruel history. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Slavery, Bullying, Torture, Violence, Child death, Colonisation, Grief, Kidnapping, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Genocide, Hate crime, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Xenophobia

amsswim's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I very much encourage everyone to read or listen to this book. Follow the author to important heritage sites to the legacy of slavery through the US and beyond; plantations, prisons, confederate cemeteries.  Made me very reflective on random interactions I have had over the years and how the people in my family history may have interacted. The content is graphic and unflinching, which is entirely necessary. It is also one of the best written non-fiction books I have read, I believe because you are going on a journey with the author. I am unable to summarize so much of one amazing book, so I am just going to say again read it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Violence, Trafficking, Racism, Confinement, Murder, Racial slurs, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Slavery, Sexual violence, and Rape

heatherilene's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Sexual assault, Classism, Racism, Violence, Slavery, Child death, and Confinement

jayreadsthings's review

5.0

A really good nonfiction book on some of the landmarks of America's history as a slave owning nation. I highly recommend this book as well as the audiobook which is read by the author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Slavery

Moderate: Rape and Child death

jrosegross's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Hate crime, Slavery, and Racism

juliana18's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Slavery

Moderate: Racial slurs, Child death, and Child abuse

bookedbymadeline's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is Smith’s first non-fiction, as he usually write poetry which comes through in the writing style of this work. He manages to place you in each of the locations as he describes the weather, the sounds, and the people around him. I learned and unlearned a lot of things from Smith’s book, continuing my education in the real history of the US (and in some cases Europe).

I know I say “this book is important” or “everyone should read this” quite often but if there’s only one book out of all my “should reads” that you grab, pick this one. It’s easily accessible in terms of language and content, not bogged down with information overload. Although it’s a heavy emotional read, it’s a fast read that had me staying awake late into the night.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racism, Racial slurs, Death, Violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Rape, Child death, Kidnapping, War, and Genocide

Minor: Police brutality

bgirl1214's review

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Confinement, Hate crime, Trafficking, Colonisation, Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Rape, Medical trauma, Gore, Torture, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Cultural appropriation, Sexual violence, Child death, and Grief

madradstarchild's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racism, and Hate crime

Moderate: Genocide, Death, Racial slurs, Colonisation, and Confinement

Minor: Child death, War, Torture, Murder, Police brutality, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Rape