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This book, authored by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown, critically examines the Transatlantic Slave Trade, describing it as a genocidal crime against humanity that affected approximately 25 million African people. The authors discuss the enduring legacy of this atrocity, highlighting its impact on systemic racism and social injustices that persist today, including economic disparity and environmental racism. The book draws connections between historical events and current issues faced by people of African descent, urging recognition and action to address these ongoing challenges. It is intended for readers interested in understanding the historical roots of racial inequality and advocating for reparatory justice.

Transatlantic slave trade --- Racism

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The first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years, yet this is the first book-length study covering the whole of the North American slave trade. American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as an integral part of the larger story of American slavery. Engaging deeply with both African and American history and addressing the trade over time, Kelley examines the experience of captivity, drawing on more than a hundred African narratives to offer a portrait of enslavement in the regions of Africa frequented by American ships. Kelley also provides a social history of the two American ports where slave trading was most intensive, Newport and Bristol, Rhode Island. In telling this tragic, brutal, and largely unknown story, Kelley corrects many misconceptions while leaving no doubt that Americans were a nation of slave traders.

Slave trade --- Slavery --- Transatlantic slave trade. --- History. --- History.

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Jane Webster develops a pioneering approach to 'rebuilding' British slaving vessels, creating a new archaeology of the Middle Passage. The book also examines multiple sources and accounts, questioning why the African Middle Passage experience remains elusive, even after decades of scholarship dedicated to uncovering it.

Turkey --- History. --- Civilization. --- Politics and government. --- Economic conditions. --- Transatlantic slave trade --- Middle Passage. --- Archaeology.

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Archetypes of Transition in Diaspora Art and Ritual examines residually oral conventions that shape the black diaspora imaginary in the Caribbean and America. Colonial humanist violations and inverse issues of black cultural and psychological affirmation are indexed in terms of a visionary gestalt according to which inner and outer realities unify creatively in natural and metaphysical orders. Paul Griffith's central focus is hermeneutical, examining the way in which religious and secular symbols inherent in rite and word as in vodun, limbo, the spirituals, puttin' on ole massa, and dramatic and narrative structures, for example, are made basic to the liberating post-colonial struggle. This evident interpenetration of political and religious visions looks back to death-rebirth traditions through which African groups made sense of the intervention of evil into social order. Herein, moreover, the explanatory, epistemic, and therapeutic structures of art and ritual share correspondences with the mythic archetypes that Carl Jung posits as a psychological inheritance of human beings universally.--

African diaspora --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Africans --- Transatlantic slave trade --- Migrations

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Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labor, the heart - the spirit - of Africa did not stop beating in the New World. Rather, it survived and has re-emerged; changed by contacts with new cultures and environments, but still part of the continuum of African tradition: an African Re-Genesis. This is the first volume in its field to emphasize the interdisciplinary temporal and geographic comparative research of Archaeology, Anthropology, History and Linguistics to allow us to form unique perspectives on bro

African diaspora. --- Slavery --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Africans --- Migrations --- Africa --- Civilization. --- History. --- Transatlantic slave trade