Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGrury

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGrury

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In the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse. Given such history, isn't it likely that many of the enslaved were severely traumatized? And did the trauma and the effects of such horrific abuse end with the abolition of slavery?