Clint Smith, writer: ‘It is impossible to understand the US economy without slavery’ | Culture
Academic Clint Smith in Maryland, in an image courtesy of the author. Carletta Girma “My grandfather’s grandfather was enslaved.” This is how writer and academic Clint Smith, 36, begins the epilogue of his book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. The ties to that history aren’t so