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Western European and British Barbarity, Savagery, and Brutality in the Transatlantic Chattel Slave Trade
Homologated by the Churches and Intellectials in the Seventeenth-Nineteent Century a Critical Study
Man makes history, in a fashion, and history also makes man.
As with other men, the historical experience of the African over the centuries has had a profound effect on his self-image as well as on his perception of the external world.
Perhaps more than other men, the African in pre-colonial times developed a strong historical tradition, and his perception of himself and his world came to depend very much on his view of the past.
European colonialism, brief as it was, produced a traumatic effect largely because it tried to impose on the African a gross distortion of his historical tradition.
