Dr. Patricia And Newton, M.D., M.P.H.
Transcultural & Forensic Psychiatrist
Makani Themba
Chief Strategist, Higher Ground Strategies
Hunter Havlin Adams III
WE WERE NEVER
SLAVES!
The Neuropolitics of Being Human: Solving the Impossible, Healing Our Mosaic Selves
What if someone proved that the story you’ve believed about being human fostered false memories of some people as superior — and others not quite human?
What if someone showed you a 2,500 year-old open secret *slave* spell that legalized inequality — and is still in play today?
No one taught you the neuropolitics of being human. Since you didn’t know — now you know.
Book Launch — Obama Presidential Center, Chicago
Friday, August 21, 2026 · 6:30–8:30 pm · Limited seating — reserve your ticket now
This book disrupts. It hits a nerve. It rejuvenates hope.
About the Book
Seven Strategies to Break the *Slave* Spell
This book is psychologically charged and emotionally explosive. It marries brain and consciousness research, simulation theory, political science, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and ethics to hack history, humble hierarchies of dominance, and enact restful resistance.
Adams takes you on an adventure through the brain fog of bamboozlement, forests of falsehood, and valleys of invisible moral, political, and epistemic violence — toward a new horizon of truth at the edges of knowledge.
Adams exposes Slavery’s Strange Fruit, classifies Crimes Against Humanity with a ledger of 24 Ethnocide Harms, and explains Why Ancestors Matter.
Jazz shows us that we already have the improvisational power to solve the impossible. Our future Ancestors are counting on us.
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About the Author
Hunter Havlin Adams III
Born in Chicago, Hunter Havlin Adams III works at the intersection of cultural neuroscience, neuropolitics, complex systems theory, mental health, human rights, and the arts. He examines self-models of pro-social and empathic behavior, dehumanization, and xenophobia to reveal the underlying models that shape perception, power, and privilege.
He is an associate at Chicago’s Center for the Collaborative Study of Trauma, Health Equity and Neurobiology, and a board member and co-founder of the Humanity Pact Alliance, a global civil society organization.
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We Were Never Slaves!
Hunter Havlin Adams III · Haloli House Press · 2026
Forward Ever, Backward Never
WE WERE NEVER SLAVES!
The astounding renunciation of African humanity — and how we can re-affirm it, re-imagine it, and build toward new ways of being free.
We Have Been Framed
With laser-like intensity, Adams incinerates our common conceptions of "slave" and "slavery." He reveals fable through the label — why and how, for at least 560 years, Africans in the Americas were called "slaves" but never were.
He decolonizes history, the humanities, and science — cracking the curse of damnatio memoriae, the effective erasure of African humanism. Imagine discovering African humanist cultures and civilizations going back 100,000 years — before "slavery!"
What sets this book apart is that Adams puts forward brain-based insights on how we get out of this mess — strategies to heal hidden wounds, transform victimization into agency, and parasitic privilege into compassion.
This landmark work helps get the language straight, and offers a radical road-map toward new ways of being free.
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