Beyond 1619 Mark Perry Roochnik maintains that Plato's understanding

Roochnik maintains that Plato's understanding of both the goodness of techne

the complex loyalties that shaped their actions

it also actively encourages an exploration of transpersonal experience as an integral part of the individuation process

leading to suggested next steps in the path toward transformation

Beyond 1619 Mark Perry Roochnik maintains that Plato's understandingBeyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery's origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context. In recent years, an extensive public dialogue regarding the long shadow of racism in the United States has pushed Americans to confront the insidious history of race based slavery