Event Details

Belvie Rooks and Thomas DeWolf will discuss Inheriting the Trade, his trail-blazing memoir about his family's quest to face its slave-trading past and an urgent call for reconciliation. From 1769 to 1820, DeWolf fathers, sons and grandsons trafficked in human beings. They sailed their ships from Bristol, Rhode Island to West Africa with rum to trade for African men, women and children. Captives were taken to plantations that the DeWolfs owned in Cuba or were sold at auction in such ports as Havana and Charleston. Over the generations, the family owned 47 ships that transported thousands of Africans across the Middle Passage into slavery. They were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history.

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