Reconnecting and Healing Across Historical Trauma

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Reconnecting and Healing Across Historical Trauma

Dr Lisa Bratton is an Associate Professor of History at Tuskegee University in America. She received her B.B.A. from Howard University, M.B.A. from Atlanta University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in African American Studies from Temple University. She is writing a book on Historic Brattonsville, the South Carolina plantation on which her ancestors, Green and Malinda Bratton, were enslaved. Using plantation records, she illustrates how enslaved people resisted the condition of slavery. DNA recently confirmed that she is blood-related to the whites who enslaved her family and holds monthly meeting with descendants to discuss their difficult shared heritage.

Dr Lisa Bratton, an Associate Professor of History at Tuskeegee University in the US, talks about the history of racial trauma and slavery in the US and the impacts today for white and black descendants, being a descendent of the Brattonsville plantation herself.

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