Reflections on the Legacy of Slavery: Charles Long

Maulana Karenga states that the effects of the African slave trade were "the morally monstrous destruction of human possibility involved redefining African humanity to the world, poisoning past, present and future relations with others who only know us through this stereotyping and thus damaging the truly human relations among people of today". He cites that it constituted the destruction of culture, language, religion and human possibility. Suite





Significations is a criticism of several major approaches (phenomenological, historical, theological) to the study of religion in the United States, in which the author attempts a reevaluation of some of the basic issues forming the study of religion in America, an outline of a hermeneutics of conquest and colonialism generated during the formation of the social and symbolic order called the "New World," and a critique of the categories of civil religion, innocence, and theology from the perspective of the black experience and the experience of colonized peoples.






While African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and resiliency, they did not emerge unscathed. Slavery produced centuries of physical, psychological and spiritual injury. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing lays the groundwork for understanding how the past has influenced the present, and opens up the discussion of how we can use the strengths we have gained to heal.