Western European and British Barbarity, Savagery, and Brutality in the Transatlantic Chattel Slave TRade

About the Book

Man makes history, in a fashion, and history also makes man. As with other men, the historical experience of the African over the centuries has had a profound effect on his self-image as well as on his perception of the external world. Perhaps more than other men, the African in pre-colonial times developed a strong historical tradition, and his perception of himself and his world came to depend very much on his view of the past. European colonialism, brief as it was, produced a traumatic effect largely because it tried to impose on the African a gross distortion of his historical tradition.

About the Author

Rev'd. Dr. Robinson A. Milwood is a doctorate graduate and Liberation Black Theology Theologian and Historian with specialisation in European and British semantic cultural Christianity. He has written widely on the transatlantic chattle slave trade in Africans. He used consistently hermeneutical approach in order to make effective the combination and significane of liberation theology, liberation black theology and black studies.Dr. Milwood is convinced that philosophy of religion, biblical theology and systematic cannot have any authority and rectitude without the imperatives of contextualization, engagement, embracement and connection. For Dr. Milwood, contextualization and connection must be made with the facinorous, pestiferous and egregious transatlantic chattle slave trade in Africans. Dr. Milwood further postulation is that the slave trade was conducted with the homologation of all the churches, juxtaposed with the philosophers, theologians, historians and scientists. Looking critically at the continent of Africa Dr. Milwood says, the transatlantic chattle slave trade legacy on Africa has left a deep psychological legacy of slavery, the legacy of colonialism, massive techonological under-development and theological and psychological legacy of European and British semantic cultural Christianization of Africa with the apparition of a caucasian Jesus without any ( entification) historical evidence. In other words, such figure never existed. Rather the image and figure of a caucasian Jesus was a European and British invention for their theological justification of the deracination and enforced enslavement of Africans, based on racism, ideology, economic rapacity, political hegemony and empire building. And that it was confirmed in the brutalization, dehumnaization, baracoonization and inferiorization of Africans. Theological disciplines must veridically connect with the horrendous transatlantic chattle slave trade in Africans which was a moral crime against Almighty God and humanity. African axiological and ontological humanity was violently violated by the merchants, traders, slavers and planters with the homologation of evangelization and christianization of African slaves by all the churches and Quakers