The rush for Black diamonds / George Walters-Sleyon ; foreword by John Witte Jr.
| Author/creator | Walters-Sleyon, George author. |
| Other author | Witte, John, Jr., 1959- writer of foreword. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2024- ] |
| Description | volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Incomplete content | volume 1. From John Locke to Thomas Jefferson : the transatlantic slave trade to chattel slavery in the UK and the US -- volume 2. Chattel slavery to penal slavery in the US and the UK, 1865 to Post-1970 realities |
| Abstract | The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One is the first of two volumes. It explores the Transatlantic slave trade and its mutation into chattel slavery. Volume One focuses on the involvement of two prominent Enlightenment philosophers as the architects of the political, legal, economic, and philosophical justifications for the human trade in the United Kingdom and the United States: John Locke (1632-1704), a British philosopher and "Father of Liberalism"; and Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third president of the United States. Both men, Locke and Jefferson, were also slave traders and slave masters. Referring to Lockean Slavery and Jeffersonian Slavery, The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One contends that Locke and Jefferson are responsible for the justification and sustainability of chattel slavery and its post-slavery racial perceptions and marginalization of Black people in the West. Used as a metaphor, Black Diamonds captures the exploration of Western nations' rush for Black people across the Atlantic Ocean to be used as economic units and chattel property. With impunity, it was the most disruptive act of human institutions, cultures, and socioeconomic and political stability, with substantial financial, social, political, and racial implications for centuries in human history. The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume Two demonstrates the need for a Reform Prison Theology and a Holistic Penal Ethics in the United States and the United Kingdom (England and Wales, and Scotland). As a descriptive, analytic, and prescriptive engagement, it contends that colonialism and penal slavery are the modern vestiges of the transatlantic slave trade and the institution of chattel slavery also made possible by the Thirteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. This book explores the transition from the institution of chattel slavery to colonialism and penal slavery prior to and after 1970 by the superpowers of the transatlantic slave trade, including the US, France, and the UK. It shows the intersections of the economic and racial influences of chattel slavery, the Black Codes, the preservation of the cult of White supremacy on the development of the post-1970 penal industries and their collateral effects of the high rates of prisoner deaths in the US and the UK. Like John Locke and Thomas Jefferson, Volume Two argues that Immanuel Kant provided the most concise philosophical claims for the emergence of the cult of White supremacy and its militant preservation through the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan against Black humanity. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9798385203116 |
| ISBN | 9798385201365 (paperback) ; vol. 1 |
| ISBN | 9798385201372 (hardcover) ; vol. 1 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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