Traces of the Trade

Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North at the Missouri History Museum
in Forest Park

Friday SEPTEMBER 18 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Lee Auditorium FREE

Presented by the Missouri History Museum in conjunction with the St. Louis Beacon and KETC/Channel 9 and in partnership with The Commission on Dismantling Racism for the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri

www.tracesofthetrade.org

This Emmy-nominated film is a unique and disturbing journey of discovery into the history and “living consequences” of slavery. One might think the tragedy of this shameful episode in American history has been exhaustively told. Katrina Browne thought the same, until she discovered that her slave-trading ancestors from Rhode Island were not an aberration.
Rather, they were just the most prominent actors in the North’s vast complicity in slavery, buried in myths of Northern innocence. Browne, a direct descendant of Mark Anthony
DeWolf, the first slaver in the family, took the unusual step of writing to 200 descendants, inviting them to journey with her from Rhode Island to Ghana to Cuba and back, recreating the
Triangle Trade that made the DeWolfs the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Nine relatives signed up. This film is Browne’s spellbinding account of the journey that resulted.

Running time: 86 minutes.

Stay after the film for a discussion with filmmaker Katrina Browne.

Please note that September 18 is also the night of the Balloon Glow in Forest Park. Plan to arrive early to avoid traffic congestion.

MISSOURI HISTORY MUSEUM

Lindell & DeBaliviere in Forest Park

(314) 746-4599 • www.mohistory.org