Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Americas Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing Degruy Joy a.Paperback
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Americas Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing Degruy Joy a.Paperback In the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification…
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Americas Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing Degruy Joy a.Paperback
In the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. Given such history, isn't it likely that many of the enslaved were severely traumatized? They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse.
Today the violations continue, and when combined with the crimes of the past, they result in yet unmeasured injury. And did the trauma and the effects of such horrific abuse end with the abolition of slavery?Emancipation was followed by one hundred more years of institutionalized subjugation through the enactment of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, peonage, convict leasing, domestic terrorism and lynching. What do repeated traumas, endured generation after generation by a