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Inheriting the trade a Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history

Describes one family's efforts to come to terms with its past as America's most powerful slave-trading dynasty by following the trade route from New England, to West Africa, to Cuba while confronting the horrors of slavery and its legacy for all Americans.

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  • "Describes one family's efforts to come to terms with its past as America's most powerful slave-trading dynasty by following the trade route from New England, to West Africa, to Cuba while confronting the horrors of slavery and its legacy for all Americans."@en
  • "DeWolf's memoir documents a journey in which ten family members retraced the steps of their slave-trading ancestors and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states."@en
  • "DeWolf's memoir documents a journey in which ten family members retraced the steps of their slave-trading ancestors and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states."
  • "In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in American history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S. senator James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island, curried favor with President Jefferson to continue in the trade after it was outlawed. When James DeWolf died in 1837, he was the second-richest man in America. When Katrina Browne, Thomas DeWolf's cousin, learned about their family's history, she resolved to confront it head-on, producing and directing a documentary feature film, Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North. [This book] is Tom DeWolf's ... memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced the steps of their ancestors and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states. [The book also] reveals that the North's involvement in slavery was as common as the South's. Not only were black people enslaved in the North for over two hundred years, but the vast majority of all slave trading in America was done by northerners. Remarkably, half of all North American voyages involved in the slave trade originated in Rhode Island, and all the northern states benefited. -Dust jacket."@en
  • "Presents a memoir about an American family's efforts to come to terms with its past as a powerful slave-trading dynasty by following the trade route from New England to West Africa and Cuba, while confronting the horrors of slavery first hand and its modern-day legacy for Americans of all races."
  • "In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in American history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S. senator James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island, curried favor with President Jefferson to continue in the trade after it was outlawed. When James DeWolf died in 1837, he was the second-richest man in America. When Katrina Browne, Thomas DeWolf's cousin, learned about their family's history, she resolved to confront it head-on, producing and directing a documentary feature film, Traces of the trade: a story from the Deep North. Inheriting the trade is Tom DeWolf's powerful and disarmingly honest memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced the steps of their ancestors and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states."
  • "In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in American history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S. senator James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island, curried favor with President Jefferson to continue in the trade after it was outlawed. When James DeWolf died in 1837, he was the second-richest man in America. When Katrina Browne, Thomas DeWolf's cousin, learned about their family's history, she resolved to confront it head-on, producing and directing a documentary feature film, Traces of the trade: a story from the Deep North. Inheriting the trade is Tom DeWolf's powerful and disarmingly honest memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced the steps of their ancestors and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states."@en

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