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Book

The transatlantic slave trade : overcoming the 500-year legacy

Call Number

  • 306.362 C5127 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : SelectBooks, Inc., [2024]

Physical Description

xvii, 194 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Summary

"Authors affirm that the Transatlantic Slave Trade was the longest-running genocidal crime against humanity in world history, causing the death, enslavement, and suffering of approximately 25 million African people for centuries in the Western Hemisphere, and support the United Nation's Report citing concrete steps to address the continued harm suffered by people of African descent"--

Contents

  • UN observes international remembrance of slave trade
  • The Catholic Church played a major role in slavery
  • A five-hundred-year-old shared history
  • The economic engine of the new nation
  • Are we still slaves?
  • The "roots" of slavery and its lasting effects
  • From enslavement to mass incarceration
  • From slavery to civil rights and environmental racism
  • The transatlantic slave trade : 500 years later the diaspora still suffers
  • The transatlantic slave trade : Africans urged to "come home"
  • A slave's African medical science saves lives of Bostonians during the 1771 smallpox epidemic
  • Environmental racism, another legacy of the transatlantic slave trade
  • The misleading myths of black-on-black crime
  • The deepening wealth gap : decades of policy failures leave formerly enslaved people behind
  • Redlining, gentrification, and the stealing of communities
  • The news media perpetuates racism
  • Conclusion: Overcoming the 500-year legacy.

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Added Authors

Stacy Brown