Please join us for our next very special film event, ”Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North” on Tuesday, February 15, 2011, from 4:00 to 6:30 pm in the University Hall Amphitheater.
Traces of the Trade is a documentary based on the discovery by filmmaker Katrina Browne that her New England ancestors, the DeWolfs, were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Contrary to popular belief, viewers learn that Northern slavery existed for over 200 years.
This film retraces the DeWolf trade route. The Triangle Trade brought rum from the family’s distillery in Bristol, Rhode Island to buy African people from coastal Ghana slave forts to be sold in Havana and Charleston, and purchased Cuban sugar and molasses to be brought back to Bristol. While the DeWolfs made their fortune trading slaves, this film also looks at the financial gain by many Northerners through a network of commercial activities.
The film will be followed by a panel discussion that includes one the film’s directors. It is free and open to the public.
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Film Duration: 86 minutes
Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 4:00 - 6:30 pm
University hall, Amphitheater
For More information, check out: http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/
