This was utterly fantastic. Cannot recommend enough.

This isn't so much about the history of slavery as it is how we're dealing with that history. So while you do get a lot of historical information, the focus of the book is present day. You're following Smith as he visits various historical places, from Monticello to a slave port in Africa, and takes a deep dive into what people are doing today to share that history. He talks about the slavery centric tours at Monticello and what it's taken to get to a point where slavery is explicitly discussed there. He visits a confederate church that doesn't discuss slavery at all and a plantation that was restored specifically to become a testament to the history of enslaved people.

There's so much in this book that is worth the read and I genuinely think you should just go ahead and pick it up. I can honestly see myself rereading this in a few years. Just a wonderful piece of literature.

I listened to the audiobook and would also highly recommend that experience.