Description

This DVD is licensed for small churches, synagogues, and other low-budget faith-based organizations. Please self-determine whether you can afford the higher, $175 price or not.

First-time filmmaker Katrina Browne makes a troubling discovery - her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine fellow descendants set off to retrace the Triangle Trade: from their old hometown in Rhode Island, to slave forts in Ghana, to the ruins of a sugar plantation in Cuba. Step by step, they uncover the vast extent of Northern complicity in slavery while stumbling and stretching their way through the minefield of contemporary race relations. The film is being released in 2008 for the bicentennial of the U.S. abolition of the slave trade.

Purchase of this DVD includes public performance rights for free screenings hosted by your organization for the life of the DVD. It does not include the right to charge admission or lend the DVD. Note: Seminaries and religious schools need to order the DVD through our educational distributor. You can send an email to instdvd@tracesofthetrade.org to be alerted when it is available in the early fall. Thank you for helping with this honor system!

Cast

Juanita Brown, Katrina Browne, Keila DePoorter, Tom DeWolf, Holly Fulton, Elly Hale, Ledlie Laughlin, Dain Perry, James Perry, Jim Perry, Elizabeth Sturges Llerena

Festivals

Sundance Film Festival (2008 Documentary Competition)
New Orleans International Human RIghts Film Festival (2008)
Newport International Film Festival (2008)
Human RIghts Watch International Film Festival (2008)
Woods Hole Film Festival (2008)
Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival (2008)

Production Credits & Notes

Director, Producer, and Writer: Katrina Browne
Co-Director, Editor, and Writer: Alla Kovgan
Co-Director and Executive Producer: Jude Ray
Co-Producer and Executive Producer: Elizabeth Delude-Dix
Co-Producer: Juanita Brown
Director of Photography: Liz Dory
Sound Recordist: Jeffrey Livesey
Original Score by: Roger C. Miller
Animators: Handcranked Productions
Supervising Editor: William Anderson
Consulting Producers: William Anderson, Llewellyn Smith
Associate Producers: Sara Archambault, Catherine Benedict, Heather Kapplow, Leslie Koren, Beth Sternheimer
Line Producers: Africanus Aveh, Boris Crespo, Amy Geller, Lucia Small
Researcher: Jennifer Anderson
Historical Consultants: James DeW. Perry, Joanne Pope Melish
Music Supervisors: Daniel Arriaga, Alla Kovgan