“The Rush for Black Diamonds:” Vols. 1 & 2
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The Rush for Black Diamonds Vol. One Press Release Dr. George Walters-Sleyon
“The Rush for Black Diamonds: Vol 1”
This book is a narrative of the use of philosophy, religion, the law, race, economic interests, military might, and politics to enslave Africans between the 15th and the 19th centuries in what is considered the “Rush for Black Diamonds” akin to the Gold Rush of California. Both volumes explore the transatlantic slave trade, chattel slavery, colonialism, and the emergence of the modern penal systems of mass incarceration in the United States and the United Kingdom. Starting with the Portuguese, Spain, the Dutch, Germany, Belgium, Scotland, and France, and dominated by the British Empire, both volumes provide a historical narrative that reflects on the arguments in defense of the transatlantic slave trade and its mutation into chattel slavery and penal slavery from the famous British philosopher John Locke; and Thomas Jefferson, the Third President of the United States, and subsequently the German philosophers: Immanuel Kant and Georg Hegel. Locke and Jefferson were slave traders and slave masters. The book contends that the central arguments asserted by Locke and Jefferson continue to characterize the humanity of Black people in the West. As a reflection of Blacks’ social and intellectual deconstruction of the race-based arguments of Locke, Jefferson, and other Western intellectual figures including David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Georg Hegel, the book draws on the works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Ida B. Wells. The goal of the book is prescriptive. It provides ways to discuss the prevailing race-based climate in Europe and the United States against Black humanity.
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“The Rush for Black Diamonds,” Vol. Two
Chattel Slavery to Penal Slavery in the US and the UK 1865- to Post-1970. Focus on White Supremacy, Colonialism, Prison Theology, and Penal Ethics.
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