We Were Never Slaves — Book Launch Experience
“It’s going to be a family reunion, y’all!”
- ♫ Live performance — Robert Irving III, Senebella, Kwame Steve Cobb, Maggie Brown & others
- ✺ Social media mingling & short video
- ✎ Conversation with the author + Q&A
- ✦ Book sales & signing
On-campus paid parking: $15 after 5pm
A Haloli House Production in association with The Black United Fund of Illinois & The Humanity Pact Alliance.
We Were Never
*Slaves*
The Neuropolitics of Being Human: Solving the Impossible, Healing Our Mosaic Selves
What if the story you’ve believed about being human was built to manufacture false memories — some people cast as superior, others as not quite human?
Hunter Havlin Adams III traces a 2,500-year-old 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.
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 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.
- Graduate studies in Neuroscience — University College London, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
- Certificate in Medical Ethics — University of London, Imperial College
- B.S. — Chicago State University
- Former Certified Clinical Trauma Professional · Facilitator, Chicago TRRHI
- Improvisational theater — The Second City, Chicago · Zen meditation
“Awesome!”Dr. Patricia Ann Newton, M.D., M.P.H. — Transcultural & Forensic Psychiatrist
“Absolutely brilliant.”Makani Themba — Chief Strategist, Higher Ground Strategies
Seven strategies to break the *slave* spell
The neuropolitics of being human, in seven moves — from unearthing what really happened, to rebuilding a self that can’t be hijacked.
What really happened: 24 ethnocide harms
The just war against enemies of Christ, and camouflaged crimes against humanity — classifying the full spectrum of moral, political, psychological, and epistemic violence.
Sankofa: hacking his-story and reckoning the game of frames
A precise ledger of crimes against humanity, tracing how the record was written and how to read it again.
Clearing the brain fog, stopping the brain rot
Brain fog isn’t a diagnosis — it’s the foggy mental environment of fear, fallacy, and fantasy the billionaire class cultivates to keep societies of minds from seeing reality. Stopping the rot means discovering the truth of your story, then living it.
Wait, wait… discerning the spell they put on us
2,300 years ago, Aristotle coined the rhetoric of dehumanization; Rome advanced it. Here’s how that speech still spreads and amplifies — and how not to be enchanted, bamboozled, or bound by it.
Plasticity: everything changes
Through curiosity, openness, and vulnerability — cultivating connection, collaboration, compassion, and wisdom.
Transform trauma’s drama
The “traumatic resilience” toolkit that plantation- and prison-camp captives developed to manage chronic hostile stress — a recovery of ancestral intelligence, passed down social-epigenetically to this generation.
The mosaic self-model
A new brain-science theory of the person, developed with transcultural forensic psychiatrist Patricia Ann Newton, M.D., M.P.H., explaining how our diverse identities clash, how they get hijacked — and the keys to building an authentic self-model that can heal our mosaic societies.
This book disrupts. It hits a nerve. It rejuvenates hope.
Adams 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. Jazz shows us we already have the improvisational power to solve the impossible. Our future ancestors are counting on us.
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