The role of dehumanisation during the Atlantic Slave Trade and the modern day implications

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject History - Africa, grade: 1:1 (First Class), , language: English, abstract: In order to comprehend acts of oppression such as the slave trade, not to mention the atrocities which accompanied it, an investigation into the psychological reasoning of the oppressors must be considered. People are not inherently evil; however, all human beings have the capacity to...