"Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North"
Followed by Q&A with Director Katrina Browne
January 9, 2018 • 6 PM
In this Emmy-nominated documentary (PBS: 2008) filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her Rhode Island forefathers were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. The film follows Browne and nine family members on a remarkable journey which brings them face-to-face with the history and legacy of New England’s complicity in slavery.
The family retraces the Triangle Trade, from a port town in Rhode Island, to slave forts on the coast of Ghana, to the ruins of family plantations in Cuba. They reckon with what the legacy of slavery has been not just for black Americans, but for them, and for white Americans more broadly. The film is unflinching but also tender, inviting people of all backgrounds into a conversation that is not based on “guilt, but grief.” What, concretely, is the legacy of slavery—for diverse whites, for diverse blacks, for diverse others? Who owes who what for the sins of the fathers of this country? What history do we inherit as individuals and as citizens? How does Northern complicity change the equation? What would repair—spiritual and material—really look like and what would it take? Join us for this eye-opening and perspective-changing event.
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