Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing Cover:Hardcover trapped in the flour vat

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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing Cover:Hardcover trapped in the flour vatHardcover Paperback From the beginning of American chattel slavery in 1619, until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psycho logical and spiritual abuse. Given such history, Dr. Joy DeGruy asks, Isnt it likely that many slaves were severely traumatized? Furthermore, did the trauma and the effects of such