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DVD

Traces of the trade : a story from the deep North

Call Number

  • DVD 306.362 T7593 (CEN)

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Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

DeWolf descendants appearing in the film: Katrina Browne, Keila DePoorter, Tom DeWolf, Holly Fulton, Elly DeWolfe Hale, Ledlie Laughlin, Dain Perry, James DeWolf Perry VI, Jim DeWolf Perry V, Elizabeth Sturges Llerena.

Publication Information

[San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, c2008.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Katrina Browne makes a troubling discovery-- her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine fellow descendants set off to retrace the Triangle Trade: from their old hometown in Rhode Island to slave forts in Ghana to sugar plantation ruins in Cuba. Step by step, they uncover the vast extent of Northern complicity in slavery while also navigating their way through the minefield of contemporary race relations.

Notes

Originally produced as a documentary film in 2008.

Complements: Inheriting the trade : a Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history / Thomas Norman DeWolf. Boston : Beacon Press, c2008.

Special features (82 min.): Also includes an abridged version of the film (51 min.); extended interviews with Prof. Ronald W. Bailey & Prof. Joanne Pope Melish (10 min.), Prof. Joanne Pope Melish (12 min.), Prof. Robert Addo-Fening (8 min.), Prof. Maria del Carmen Barcia (12 min.), Prof. Glenn Loury (12 min.) & Prof. Charles Ogletree (9 min.); interviews with Browne (14 min.) & Rev. Frank Griswold (5 min.); printable materials (discussion guides for each version of the film & a collection of companion essays, all in PDF format).

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