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

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

Joy DeGruy

235 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction psychology race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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, psyc...

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informative 100%
reflective 81%
emotional 63%
challenging 36%
dark 36%
sad 36%
hopeful 27%
inspiring 9%
tense 9%

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medium 44%

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