The Black Holocaust and the Refusal to Forget: Slavery, Constitutional False Belief, and the Struggle for Epistemic Justice and Democratic Reconstruction

The Black Holocaust and the Refusal to Forget: Slavery, Constitutional False Belief, and the Struggle for Epistemic Justice and Democratic Reconstruction confronts one of the most consequential and systematically suppressed truths in human history. This groundbreaking work exposes how slavery, Jim Crow laws, and institutional racial hierarchy formed a coordinated system of economic exploitation, political exclusion, and psychological domination that shaped modern American democracy and global capitalism.Drawing from extensive historical research, constitutional scholarship, theology, economics, and interdisciplinary analysis, Kenneth Dantzler-Corbin demonstrates how European merchants, governments, corporations, and legal institutions built an economic empire through the capture, commodification, and forced labor of millions of African human beings. The book reveals how slavery did not end in 1865 but evolved into new institutional forms, including convict leasing, segregation, redlining, voter suppression, and mass incarceration, which preserved wealth extraction and structural inequality across generations.This work introduces the concept of the Black Holocaust as a continuous institutional system that reshaped law, economics, religion, education, and democratic governance. It shows how constitutional interpretation, institutional authority, and false historical narratives enabled racial hierarchy while suppressing truth and democratic participation. Through powerful historical evidence and scholarly analysis, the book exposes how wealth, privilege, and institutional power in the modern world remain deeply connected to this history.At the same time, this book honors the intellectual resistance, spiritual resilience, and democratic mobilization of African Americans who preserved historical truth, challenged institutional injustice, and transformed constitutional law. From abolitionists and civil rights leaders to scholars and activists, their courage strengthened democratic reconstruction and expanded the meaning of freedom, equality, and human dignity.The Black Holocaust and the Refusal to Forget challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths, understand the origins of structural inequality, and recognize the ongoing struggle for epistemic justice and constitutional accountability. This book stands as both a historical revelation and a call to preserve truth, strengthen democratic institutions, and ensure that the legacy of the Black Holocaust is remembered and acknowledged. Read more