KWAKU PERSON-LYNN
Often referred to as “The Dean of Black Historians.”
Often referred to as “The Dean of Black Historians.”
Often referred to as “The Dean of Black Historians.”
Often referred to as “The Dean of Black Historians.”. Although critical of the behavior of Africans involvement in the slave trade, Person-Lynn maintains that there was a qualitative difference between African concepts of slavery where the enslavement was conceptually of human beings whereas the chattel slavery of the Atlantic trade considered the slaves as sub-human property. It is arguable as to which of the two views is the greater moral failure, but many regard it as a difference not worth much in that both views were grossly immoral and had devastating consequences for a large number of people.
Often referred to as “The Dean of Black Historians.”. He and his colleagues are more critical of the educators and politicians who control the history that reaches students than of the historians themselves though some of them are included in the criticism. Their major criticism is that African influence upon Minoan and other cultures that influenced Greece, Rome and Turkey are minimized or even extirpated in most curricula. Most American students see a straight line from Ancient Greece to the Western civilizations of today with no African influence or deviations.
