The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy

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.