In Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome — America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, DeGury unveils the truth about slavery from the beginning, “The Atlantic Slave Trade”. She informs readers about the trauma Africans Americans endured for many centuries, they experienced the worst kind of physical, psychological, and emotional abuse. They were enslaved for 246 years,they were not considered a person. According to the three-fifths compromise, African American slaves were considered 3/5 of a person to determine taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. Even after abolishing slavery in 1865, African Americans still experienced forms of slavery and segregation . Laws like Jim Crows, Black codes, and Voting laws were put
