The Black Holocaust For Beginners, S.E. Anderson
The Black Holocaust For Beginners, S.E. Anderson
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The Black Holocaust For Beginners

Author: S.E. Anderson

Narrator: Bill Andrew Quinn

Unabridged: 3 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/23/2021


Synopsis

Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust—from the start of the European slave trade (c. 1500) to the Civil War (1865)? And how many were enslaved? The Black Holocaust, a travesty that killed millions of African human beings, is the most underreported major event in world history. A major economic event for Europe and Asia, a near fatal event for Africa, the seminal event in the history of every African American—if not every American!—and most of us cannot answer the simplest question about it. Here is a sample of what you will get from the painstakingly researched, painfully honest The Black Holocaust For Beginners:

"The total number of slaves imported is not known. It is estimated that nearly 900,000 came to America in the 16th Century, 2.75 million in the 17th Century, 7 million in the 18th, and over 4 million in the 19th—perhaps 15 million in total. Probably every slave imported represented, on average, five corpses in Africa or on the high seas. The American slave trade, therefore, meant the elimination of at least 60 million Africans from their fatherland."


About S.E. Anderson

S. E. Anderson, a veteran activist/educator, has been in the Black Liberation Movement on many levels. He is not only a mathematics professor, a senior editor (NOBO: Journal of African Dialogue), a founding member of the Network of Black Organizers and of The African Heritage Studies Association but also an essayist on a variety of topics related to black culture and liberation as well as science and technology. His political and cultural activism in his native New York City ranges from helping to fund the New York City Algebra Project to being a founding member of the New York City Coalition For Excellence In Black Education.

As a young activist, Anderson was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped found the Black Panther Party in Harlem in 1966. He has been active in the African Liberation Support Movement since 1964 and participated in the historic Black student/community struggle against Columbia University's encroachment into Harlem in 1968. Ironically, almost twenty years later, he became a Columbia University Revson Fellow (1986-7). In addition, he has taught mathematics, science, and Black Studies at Queens College.

Anderson became one of the first Black Studies Chairs, when in 1969 he accepted the challenge at Sarah Lawrence College to create a department that included mathematics and the natural sciences as part of a Black Studies Curriculum.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Africanpersonalities2000 on July 13, 2009

This book is a great one to have in your archive because it takes you back in time to visit the treatment and views the physical enslavement of afrikan as it should be viewed as a holocaust. It also supports all claims with factual data that give great insight into the current condition of the Afrik......more

Goodreads review by Ragne on February 05, 2024

Note: I've read the audiobook, not the graphic. Holy hell, I feel sick. This should be much more widely read. It's a horrific book, but it's the absolutely least we can do. Give this to your friends and family who don't understand the reason for advocating for reperations. Together with books about ho......more

Goodreads review by Ceylontjaya on December 02, 2009

this is about elimination of 60 million Africans from their motherland.......more

Goodreads review by Arnold on October 28, 2024

this book needs to be read more and shows us the history of slavery. It is a book that makes you see how they were taken from their homeland and forced to march to the ships and then without much food if any and very little water. The torture, the beatings, the rape, that went on and it didn't matte......more

Goodreads review by Elianah on January 22, 2020

Honestly, I did not think this book would evoke as much emotion as it did in me. Based on the adolescent drawings, I thought this book was a brief summary. WRONG! Page after page I was transported into the narrative of the slave trade. I learned of the horrible atrocities and also about the involvem......more