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

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.