TRACES OF THE TRADE:   A STORY FROM THE DEEP NORTH

Ebb Pod Prods., Katrina Browne, director/writer, 86 min., color Sony HD Cam

2008 Sundance Film Festival • Human Rights Watch International Film Festival • Newport International Film Festival
Napa Sonoma Film Festival • Woods Hole Film Festival • Roxbury Film Festival • Global Peace Film Festival
Northampton Independent Film Festival • Cambridge Film Festival • Global Issues Film Festival • St. Louis International Film Festival

Sundance 2008, Official Selection, Feature Documentary Competition
National Broadcast Premiere, PBS June 24, 2008

IMDB Info

Hollywood Reporter
"Bottom Line:   An honest, painful and important doc about one family's confrontation with its legacy as slave traders.   Powerful is an inadequate word to describe the impact of Katrina Browne's "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North," an examination of her forebears, the DeWolf family of Bristol, Rhode Island, the largest slave traders in U.S. history."

From Filmcatcher
"This film, has a fresh, almost hand held camera look,
and there are great images peppered though out."

movie website: www.tracesofthetrade.org


READ THE BOOK
Inheriting the Trade by Thomas Norman DeWolf

"Inheriting the Trade" is like a slow-motion mash-up, a first person view from within one of the country's founding families as it splinters, then puts itself back together again." - Edward Ball, author of Slaves in the Family
 
book website: http://inheritingthetrade.com