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How America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery Past Monticello, photographed in 2018. In “How the Word Is Passed,” Clint Smith visits nine places that memorialize or distort their link to the legacy of slavery, from Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va., to the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. He skillfully braids interviews with scholarship and personal observation, asking, “How different might our country look if all of us fully understood what had happened here?”Credit...Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times Buy Book ▾ By Julian Lucas HOW THE...

Robert E. Lee monument, Richmond, Virginia, 2020. Photograph by Joseph. Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Criticism of the Lost Cause and Confederate symbols stretched back as early as 1870, when Frederick Douglass called out the “ nauseating flatteries of the late Robert E. Lee” that poured in after the Confederate general’s death, asking, “Is it not about time that this bombastic laudation of the rebel chief should cease?” Until his death in 1895, Douglass engaged in an uphill battle to dislodge the Lost Cause narrative that had gripped the national consciousness while still seeking to pr...