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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.
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"We need this book because too many still don't get it. Too many still turn a blind eye to the realities of our past and present. Too many still refuse to connect the dots between slavery and today's racial injustices. This book is a wake-up call, a demand for awareness, and a call to action. It's about honoring the legacy of our ancestors by continuing their fight for true freedom and equality."
From the Foreword by Chuck D of Public Enemy
"This book co-authored by Dr. Ben Chavis, with his distinguished civil rights legacy, provides us with a unique perspective on how slavery's legacy still affects us today."
NBA Legend Isiah Thomas
"Sadly, the majority of our civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr., have passed on. Those remaining, such as Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, who were in the eye of the storm alongside Dr. King, must not only continue the fight, but have a responsibility to tell our story so our children, grandchildren, and generations to come never forget who we are and all we have been through. Dr. Ben Chavis owes it to us as Black people, but more importantly to future generations, for they must be equipped with nothing but the truth if they are to finish righting the wrong that was started over 400 years ago. We as elders must pave the way for them. This book will pave many miles toward that desired destination. Failure is not an option. Victory is a MUST!"
Arikana Chihombori-Quao, African Union Ambassador to the United States of America