POV - Traces of the Trade . Preview | PBS 2008

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. Step by step, they uncover the vast extent of Northern complicity in slavery while also stumbling through the minefield of contemporary race relations. In this bicentennial year of the U.S. abolition of the slave trade, "Traces of the Trade" offers powerful new perspectives on the black/white divide. An official selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

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[actutus]

Among greatest misuses to which the science of history is applied is that of blaming people now alive for the misdeeds of those long dead. This is not only unscholarly and illogical, but unethical and downright immoral. At worst, the innocent get blamed unfairly for evils of which they had no part, and at best the public's attention is wrongfully diverted from the injustices of today. They cry over the slaves of centuries past, ignoring the sweatshop slaves of today that make their clothing.

[murphycline]

Boo hoo hoo

[ffairlane57]

We Americans buy goods at Walmart which are made in China where there is little or no regard for human rights.

Oh, By the way, for those who are from Bristol, that was me who shot out all the street lights on Poppasquash rd back in the mid 80's, should I feel guilty about that?

[ffairlane57]

The family guilt fest in the end was a little corny.

[JazzMaestra]

An exceptionally good piece that sheds new light and sound history on a subject that many folks would rather forget.