Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Revised) Binding:Paperback Don't Call Us Dead opens

Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police

understand their poisonous consequences

and a deeply intoxicating and original world

a lone survivor adapts to living in a tree on a small island with a vulture he befriends

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Revised) Binding:Paperback Don't Call Us Dead opensIn the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse. Given such history, isn't it likely that many of the enslaved were severely traumatized? And did the trauma and the effects of such horrific