Understanding The "Uprooting" Circumstancesof Slavery on the African Mind

"The being of slavery, its soul and its body, lives and moves in the chattel principle, the property principle, the bill of sale principle:  the cart-whip, starvation and nakedness are its inevitable consequences."

                                                                  James W. C. Pennington, The Fugitive Blacksmith

For the first 250 years of American history, white landowners, predominantly from the South, enslaved millions of individuals of African descent. This “peculiar institution,” as it was sometimes called, defined the social, economic, and political landscape of America and was one of the cruelest systems to ever exist on the planet earth.  Slavery was so crucial to the South that one Georgia newspaper editor wrote, “Negro slavery is the South, and the South is negro slavery." Yet, despite slavery’s prominence in shaping American history, and despite volumes written by economists and historians on its consequences, historians have largely overlooked how American slavery and the events following its abolition could continue to impact the mind and influence life for African people globally.  The Black Reality Think will address the circumstances of this horror as the African community aggressively seeks to recapture the African mind.