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Inheriting the trade : a Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history / Thomas Norman DeWolf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeWolf, Thomas Norman, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- DeWolf, Charles, 1695---Family.
- DeWolf, Charles.
- DeWolf, Thomas Norman, 1954---Family.
- DeWolf, Thomas Norman.
- DeWolf, Thomas Norman, 1954---Travel--New England.
- DeWolf, Thomas Norman, 1954---Travel--Africa, West.
- DeWolf, Thomas Norman, 1954---Travel--Cuba.
- Slave traders--New England--Biography.
- Slave traders.
- Slave trade--New England--History.
- Slave trade.
- Slave trade--Africa, West--History.
- Slave trade--Cuba--History.
- New England--Biography.
- New England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A trailblazing memoir about one family's quest to face its slave-trading past, and an urgent call for reconciliation In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the notorious triangle trade route--from New England to West Africa to Cuba--and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states. A difficult but necessary examination of the slave trade, racism, and privilege in the United States, Inheriting the Trade is a powerful call for white America to reassess what they have been taught about their own ancestors, about slavery and wealth, and about America both past and present.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Family Tree
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Growing Up White
- Chapter 2: "Frail limb'd, well fed, and speaks good English"
- Chapter 3: "So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord!"
- Chapter 4: The Great Folks
- Chapter 5: "I tremble for my country . . ."
- Chapter 6: Akwaaba
- Chapter 7: "Under a Patchwork of Scars"
- Chapter 8: The Door of No Return
- Chapter 9: "I have to do it every day"
- Chapter 10: Gye Nyame
- Chapter 11: The Middle Passage
- Chapter 12: La Habana
- Chapter 13: "Our Nice Protestant Selves"
- Chapter 14: Arca de Noé
- Chapter 15: In the Fishbowl
- Chapter 16: My Harvard Education
- Chapter 17: Repairing the Breach
- Chapter 18: Sankofa
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-262).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8070-7292-3
- OCLC:
- 271215740
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