Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Airing in 42 Mins: Traces of the Trade

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 sugar plantation ruins in Cuba. | Read the synopsis »

TRACES OF THE TRADE: A STORY FROM THE DEEP NORTH premieres on P.O.V. Today June 24, 2008 at 10:00PM on PBS

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