Healing the Legacies of Slavery

 

Books

  • My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem

  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Joy DeGruy

  • The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation, by Fania E. Davis

  • Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade, by Thomas DeWolf and Sharon Leslie Morgan

  • The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin

  • The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, by Edward E. Baptist

  • When They Call you a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

  • Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave Trading Dynasty in US History, by Thomas DeWolf

  • Slaves in the Family, by Edward Ball

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson

  • The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, by Andrés Resendéz

Articles

Podcasts

 
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Healing Through Restorative Justice

Fania Davis & Konda Mason

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Racial Justice in These Times

with Konda Mason and Drew Dellinger

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Family Stories, Family Lies

Additional Resources

Southern Poverty Law Center: How Much do You Know about American Slavery? Quiz.

Timeline of Ancient Slavery

Heirs of Slavery

Susie King Taylor Center for Jubilee

Museums

 

Experience Sankofa Project Living Museum

The Experience Sankofa Project is an innovative art exhibit that combines installation art with history, set design, modeling, and altars into a comprehensive timeline of African peoples' greatness, oppression, and resistance. The time is now to "look back to move forward" with love, dignity, compassion, and truth. Visit Spearitwurx for booking.

 

Videos

 
 

Color of Fear - What It Means to be American

 
 

Wade in the Water

"Wade in the Water" tells the story of a band of enslaved Africans from the past who escape to freedom, only to find themselves in modern day America.

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: How is it Different from PTSD?

Dr. Joy DeGruy explains how trauma can be passed on generation after generation.

 
 

James Baldwin

National Press Club Speech, 1986

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality

 
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