Delve Deeper into “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North” A film by Katrina Browne

This multi-media resource list, Beacon Press, 2008. One of the Martin, Michael T. and Marilyn compiled by Susan Conlon and ten DeWolf descendents featured in Yaquinto. Redress for Historical Martha Perry of the Princeton the documentary film Traces of the Injustices in the United State: Public Library provides a range Trade, Thomas DeWolf offers his On Reparations for Slavery, Jim of perspectives on the issues own account of his experiences in Crow, and Their Legacies. raised by the upcoming P.O.V. making the film and dealing with his Durham: Duke University Press, documentary “Traces of the family’s dark legacy in the slave 2007. This comprehensive reader Trade: A Story from the Deep trade. brings together primary and North” that premieres on June www.inheritingthetrade.com secondary documents related to 24th, 2008 at 10 PM (check local efforts to redress historical wrongs listings at www.pbs.org/pov/). Farrow, Anne, Joel Lang, and against African Americans. Jenifer Frank of The Hartford First-time filmmaker Katrina Browne Courant. Complicit: How the Melish, Joanne Pope. Disowning makes a troubling discovery — her North Promoted, Prolonged, and Slavery: Gradual Emancipation New England ancestors were the Profited from Slavery in and "Race" in New England, largest slave-trading family in U.S. America. New York: Ballantine 1780-1860. Ithaca: Cornell history. She and nine fellow Books, 2005. Three veteran New University Press, 1998 Following descendants set off to retrace the England journalists demythologize the abolition of slavery in New Triangle Trade: from their old the region of America known for England, white citizens seemed to hometown in Rhode Island to slave tolerance and liberation, revealing a forget that it had ever existed forts in Ghana to sugar plantation place where thousands of people there. Drawing on a wide array of ruins in Cuba. Step by step, they were held in bondage and how primary sources--from slaveowners' uncover the vast extent of Northern slavery was both an economically diaries to children's daybooks to complicity in slavery while also lucrative and necessary way of life. racist broadsides--Joanne Pope stumbling through the minefield of Melish reveals not only how contemporary race relations. In this Harms, Robert. The Diligent: A northern society changed but how bicentennial year of the U.S. Voyage through the Worlds of its perceptions changed as well. abolition of the slave trade, "Traces the Slave Trade. New York: of the Trade" offers powerful new Basic Books, 2002. Yale historian Ogletree, Jr., Charles. All perspectives on the black/white Harms explores the global scope of Deliberate Speed: Reflections on divide. an odious industry by tracking the the First Half Century of Brown ______slave ship "Diligent,” which sailed v. Board of Education. New ADULT NONFICTION from Vannes, France, in 1731. York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. Using First Lt. Robert Durand's While the Supreme Court's Brown Bailey, Anne C. African Voices of journal, Harms fleshes out the ruling historically signified the the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond multinational web of trade official end of racial segregation in the Silence and the Shame. relationships and transactions, both the United States, a critical flaw Boston: Beacon Press, 2005. legal and illegal. was contained in the decision by the Bailey provides a previously calculated instruction that unheard perspective on the slave Henry, Charles P. Long Overdue: desegregation should proceed with trade by focusing on the few stories The Politics of Racial "all deliberate speed," argues that have been remembered in the Reparations. New York: New Ogletree (Harvard Law School). Anlo Ewe community, residents of York University Press, 2007. Ogletree combines discussion of the an area in southeastern Ghana once Ever since the unfulfilled promise of legal battles leading up to and famously called the old Slave Coast. “Forty Acres and a mule,” America following Brown. has consistently failed to confront Ball, Edward. Slaves in the the issue of racial injustice. Phillips, Caryl. The Atlantic Family. New York: Farrar, Straus Exploring why America has failed to Sound. New York: Alfred Knopf, and Giroux, 1998. The moving, compensate black Americans for the 2000. critically acclaimed story of one wrongs of slavery, Henry provides a In this fascinating inquiry into the man's journey to find the history of the racial reparations African Diaspora, Caryl Phillips descendants of the slaves who lived movement and shows why it is an embarks on a soul-wrenching on his own family's plantation. idea whose time has come. journey to the three major ports of the transatlantic slave trade. Brophy, Alfred L. Reparations: Henry, Neil. Pearl's Secret: A Juxtaposing stories of the past with Pro & Con. Oxford [England]; Black Man's Search for His his own present-day experiences, New York: Oxford University White Family. Berkeley: Phillips combines his remarkable Press, 2006. Examines the University of California Press, skills as a travel essayist with an ongoing debate of reparations along 2001. A black professor of astute understanding of history. with the historical injustices from journalism and award-winning both sides of the table. correspondent takes an investigative look into his family's DeWolf, Thomas Norman. past in this autobiography, as he Inheriting the Trade: A Northern pieces together the murky details of Family Confronts Its Legacy as his family's past in search of the the Largest Slave-Trading white branch of his family tree. Dynasty in U.S. History. Boston:

Delve Deeper into “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North” A film by Katrina Browne

Rappleye, Charles. Sons of largest family in America, the detailed in the book, including the Providence: The Brown Hairston clan. With several conditions slaves endured when Brothers, the Slave Trade, and thousand black and white members, transported from Africa, their role in the American Revolution. New the Hairstons share a complex and the Southern economy, the York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. compelling history: divided in the restrictions imposed on their lives, Set against a colonial backdrop time of slavery, they have come to the political struggle, the slave teeming with radicals and embrace their past as one family. rebellions and the end of American reactionaries, visionaries, spies, and slavery with the American Civil War. salty sea captains, this is the Winbush, Raymond A. Should biography of John and Moses America Pay?: Slavery and the Lester, Julius; Paintings by Tom Brown, two classic American Raging Debate on Reparations. Feelings. To Be a Slave. New archetypes bound by blood yet New York: Amistad, 2003. This York: Dial Books, 1968. Grades divided by the specter of more than comprehensive collection gathers 3-6. The words of former slaves are half a million Africans enslaved together the seminal essays and accompanied by Lester's historical throughout the colonies. key participants in the debate over commentary and the powerful, reparations for African Americans. muted paintings by Feelings. This Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: Newbery Honor Book has been a A Human History. New York: ______touchstone in children's literature Viking, 2007. In this intimate ADULT FICTION for over 30 years. human history of an inhuman institution, Rediker shines a light Johnson, Charles. Middle McNeese, Tim. The Rise and Fall into the darkest corners of the Passage. New York: Atheneum, of American Slavery: Freedom British and American slave ships of 1990. In this savage parable of the Denied, Freedom Gained. the eighteenth century. African American experience, Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed Publishers, 2004. Grades 6 and St Clair, William. The Door of No slave eking out a living in New up. Slavery destroyed lives and Return: The History of Cape Orleans in 1830, hops aboard a fostered strong racism, which still Coast Castle and the Atlantic square rigger to evade the prim haunts American history. Only Slave Trade. New York: Boston schoolteacher who wants to through the efforts of the BlueBridge, 2007. By telling the marry him. Winner of the 1990 antislavery advocates, slave grim story of the castle and of some Nation Book Award for Fiction. resisters, and runaways did of the people who lived, worked, or Americans finally end the practice in were imprisoned within its walls, St Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New the United States. Clair illuminates a vast panorama of York: Knopf: Distributed by modern history. Random House, 1987. Proud and Thomas, Velma Maia. Lest We beautiful, Sethe escaped from Forget: The Passage from Africa Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: slavery but is haunted by its to Slavery and Emancipation. The Story of the Atlantic Slave heritage--from the fires of the flesh New York: Crown Trade Trade, 1440-1870. New York: to the heartbreaking challenges to Paperbacks, 1997. Grades 6 and Simon & Schuster, 1997. Thomas the spirit. Set in rural Ohio several up. Richly designed, this historical gives the reader the facts about the years after the Civil War, this document is an ingenious, slave trade – by showing readers profoundly affecting chronicle of interactive, three-dimensional how whole towns, like Bristol and slavery and its aftermath is experience that dramatically Liverpool in England, Nantes in considered one of Morrison’s addresses the painful history of France, or Newport in Rhode Island, greatest works. America and the slave trade. This is grew and prospered on slavery; the first title of a trilogy that also how each new discovery and Unsworth, Barry. Sacred includes Freedom’s Children and We colonization spurred the demand for Hunger. New York: Doubleday, Shall Not Be Moved. slave labor. 1992. William Kemp wants to recoup economic losses from cotton Worth, Richard; Foreword by Wiencek, Henry. An Imperfect by entering the slave trade, while Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Slave God: George Washington, His his nephew serves as a doctor on a Trade in America: Cruel Slaves, and the Creation of slave ship before leading a revolt Commerce. Berkeley Heights, America. New York: Farrar, against the crew. Joint winner of NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2004. Straus and Giroux, 2003. the 1992 Booker Prize. Grades 6 and up. For hundreds of Wiencek explores George years, Africans were kidnapped and Washington's engagement with ______forced to endure horrific sea slavery at every stage of his life -- NONFICTION FOR YOUNGER voyages to the Americas. In this as Virginia planter, soldier, READERS notable book, Richard Worth politician, president, and statesman. explores the trade that led to the Grant, R.G. The African- enslavement of generations of Wiencek, Henry. The Hairstons: American Slave Trade. Africans and African-Americans. An American Family in Black and Hauppauge, NY: Barron's White. New York: St. Martin's Educational Series, 2002. Grades Press, 1999. Winner of the 6 and up. The history of slavery in National Book Critics Circle Award, America, from its origins in the this is the extraordinary story of the 1500s to its abolition in 1860s, is

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FICTION FOR YOUNGER ______READERS FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES

Hansen, Joyce. The Captive. “Amazing Grace.” A film by New York: Scholastic Inc., 1994. Michael Apted. Bristol Bay Grades 4-8. When Kofi's father, an Productions in association with Ashanti chief, is killed, Kofi is sold Ingenious Film Partners, 2007. as a slave and ends up in (118 min.) Based on the life of Massachusetts, where his fate is in William Wilberforce, the film the hands of Paul Cuffe, an African chronicles his passion and American shipbuilder who works to perseverance to pass a law ending return slaves to their homeland in the slave trade. Africa. “Amistad.” A film by Steven Lester, Julius. Day of Tears: A Spielberg . DreamWorks, 1999. Novel in Dialogue. New York: (155 min.) Portrays the 1839 Hyperion Books for Children, revolt on board the slave ship 2005. Grades 6 and up. Emma has Amistad bound for America. Much of taken care of the Butler children the story involves the court-room since Sarah and Frances's mother, drama about the slave who led the Fanny, left. Now a rift over slavery revolt. has ripped the Butler household apart and to pay off debts, Pierce “First Person Singular: John Butler wants to cash in his slave Hope Franklin.” A film by Dick "assets", possibly including Emma. Young. PBS Home Video, 1997. (60 Min.) The career of celebrated Moses, Shelia P. The Baptism. black historian and educator, John New York: Margaret K. Hope Franklin, whose major work, McElderry Books, 2007. Grades 5 From Slavery to Freedom, forever and up. In twentieth-century changed historians' perceptions of Occoneechee Neck, North Carolina-- the African-American role in an area still affected by its history building America. of slavery--twelve-year-old Leon Curry reflects about whether he wants to give up sinning to be baptized alongside his twin brother.

Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. New York: Philomel Books, 1994. Grades 3-6. Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops.

Taylor, Mildred D. The Land. New York: Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2001. Grades 6 and up. After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between two worlds as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.

Wesley, Valerie; illustrated by Sharon Wilson. Freedom's Gifts: A Juneteenth Story. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997. Grades 2- 6. When a girl from New York visits her cousin in Texas, she learns the origin of Juneteenth, a holiday marking the day Texan slaves realized they were free.