Full Description
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-year Legacy is a contemporary testament, history and documentation to empower remembrance, education, reckoning, reparations, and reconciliation. History reveals that whenever the denial of the oneness of all humanity is permitted, people sink into vicious, violent and virulent acts of deprivation and dehumanization. Contemporary attempts to deny, ignore, justify or condone the legacy of the centuries-long genocide and the international economic consequences of the transatlantic slave trade have to be resolutely challenged and refuted.For over five hundred years, people and nations have been enriched by the impact and saddled with the contradictions of the transatlantic slave trade. As a result of the international slave trade, unprecedented economic profits and wealth were acquired in Europe and in North and South America. The brutal consignment and enforced categorization of African people as mere property devoid of any human attribution was part and parcel of the emergence of the haunted ideology of white supremacy. That ideology is still used today in a derogatory attempt to justify racism and inequity. Comprising the research, reporting, and writings of the National Newspapers Publishers Association (NNPA) Senior National Correspondent, Stacy M. Brown with those of the renowned civil rights activist, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, The Transatlantic Slave Trade illuminates the multifaceted dimensions of this brutal phenomenon as a shared history. It is a mosaic woven from the threads of sorrow, resistance, complicity, and resilience.
Contents
Foreword by Chuck DPreface ONE UN Observes International Remembrance of Slave Trade TWO The Catholic Church Played a Major Role in Slavery THREE A Five-Hundred-Year-Old Shared History FOUR The Economic Engine of the New Nation FIVE Are We Still Slaves? SIX The " Roots" of Slavery and Its Lasting Effects SEVEN From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration EIGHT From Slavery to Civil Rights and Environmental Racism NINE The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 500 Years Later the Diaspora Still Suffers TEN The Transatlantic Slave Trade— Africans Urged to " Come Home" ELEVEN A Slave' s African Medical Science Saves Lives of Bostonians During the 1771 Smallpox Epidemic TWELVE Environmental Racism, Another Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade THIRTEEN The Misleading Myths of Black-on-Black Crime FOURTEEN The Deepening Wealth Gap: Decades of Policy Failures Leave Formerly Enslaved People Behind FIFTEEN Redlining, Gentrification, and the Stealing of Communities SIXTEEN The News Media Perpetuates Racism CONCLUSION Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy from 1500- 2024 APPENDIX A UN Resolution on International Decade for People of African Descent APPENDIX B UN Resolution on the Transatlantic Slave Trade APPENDIX C UN Declaration on Human Rights APPENDIX D UN Report on Reparatory Justice for People of African Descent EPILOGUE African Union Ambassador Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao' s Address to the NNPA at its Midwinter Training Conference in Florida, January 2019 About the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) About the Black Press of America Index About Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. About Stacy M. Brown
