The Infamous History of Slavery

About the Book

Slavery has an infamous history in the United States because it contradicts the history the American struggle for democracy, equality and justice for all in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It contradicts the American struggle against British domination, taxation without representation. Our Founding fathers saw no rights, justice and equality for Black people. They saw no freedom and voted across the board for the continuation of slavery; a system that imprisoned in bondage of laboring for whites for the duration of each Black person’s life. It subjected blacks, to constant violence, murder, rape and imprisonment, for slavery was a cruel and inhumane system, which people like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and all those other great men should’ve never supported; but they did! History shows that Blacks, abused, kidnapped from Africa, enslaved, rights taken, forced to labor for free until death; stood and fought with their enslavers, against the Indians, throughout the frontier during Colonial history, also in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnamese War, and the War in Iraq and the War in Afghanistan. Blacks fought gallantly but this history has been invisible in most American History books, not told, and denied throughout the history of America. I wish to expose that history give people a glimmer of the truth that though slaves, Blacks like the White colonist too wanted freedom, justice and democracy in America as citizens!

About the Author

He started writing poems when he was around fifteen at the Fredrick Douglass Center in Harlem, publishing some of is work in the Jet, Ebony, and then in Essence and Black World. At eighteen he met Professor and writer Audre Lorde in a English class NY City College who loved his poems and encouraged him write. He helped form a poetry group ‘the Third World Poems’ and they travelled throughout the city and to many American cities as well throughout Canada reading poetry. At around nineteen he met the Writer and Poet Nikki Giovanni, along with Ossie Davis who helped The Third World Poets refine their skills. He studied history in college and received a BA at Fordham University in Manhattan. Developed his own Health Center, New Life Institute where he taught yoga, tai chi, workshops in writing and healthy eating. Presently urban farms in New Jersey continues to practice and teach yoga and tai chi. At sixty-four he has returned to his passion writing about history and this book is his first, telling of the legacy of African People in America. Mustafa is an American of African, Caucasian and Indian heritage. He embraces that wonderful heritage, making friends and companions with people from all walks of life and cultures.