In "Traces of The Trade: A Story of The Deep North" Browne challenges the widely held belief that the southern states were solely responsible for slavery. As revealed in the documentary her ancestors' slave and cargo trading company DeWolf Fathers, Sons and Grandsons, which was responsible for bringing over 10,000 slaves across the Atlantic, was actually based out of Rhode Island.
They sailed their ships from Bristol, Rhode Island to West Africa with rum to trade for African men, women and children. The slaves were then taken to plantations or sold at auction in Charleston, South Carolina and Havana Cuba.
The film is being shown as a presentation of Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda (Curb) along with co-sponsors the Association of Bermuda International Companies, Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers, the Commission for Unity & Racial Equality (CURE) and the Bermuda Sloop Foundation.
Screenings will take place at 7.15 p.m. Monday April 12 at Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo, 7.15 p.m. Tuesday April 13 at the Liberty Theatre and 7.15 p.m. Wednesday April 14 at St. James Church, Somerset.
