Download or read book Western European and British Barbarity, Savagery, and Brutality in the Transatlantic Chattel Slave Trade written by Dr. Robinson A. Milwood PhD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.