¶ … systematical denial of culture by slaves on present day slave descendants?
This is a paper that bases its description on Thornton's book Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680 and theorizes that the systemic denial of the African cultural contribution is victimizing the African slave descendents as slavery victimized their forefathers.
The Africans nation has had a vast and positive influence on the Atlantic World. Yet, the attitude of the nations of the Atlantic with regard to the African people has been somewhat prejudiced. The Africans were forcefully taken from their land and underwent a transition that displaced their culture to such a degree that even today, the people have a hard time facing their own traditions. The systemic racism they have faced in the Atlantic world has caused their culture, values and needs to be undermined...
When the Africans were brought to this land they had to face a painful fate. They were separated from their families, their lands and their own self. Forced to be slaves they lost all semblance of pride and yet, at each avenue tried to rise above their unenviable fate.
In the past the Africans were slaves to the 'whites' and were forced to live their lives, as the latter deemed appropriate. They were unable to practice their religion as it was considered 'heathen' and they were unable to live as they pleased, as their lifestyle was 'uncivilized.' As time passed the Africans tried to accommodate their beliefs with the…
