[Antiracism] Feb. 9, 2009: 7:00pm Traces of The Trade at Westfield State College

[Sam Stegeman]

Please join us for a
> Screening of Traces of the Trade
> Monday, February 9, 2009
> 7:00pm Screening at Westfield State College's
> Scanlon Banquet Hall
> 577 Western Avenue
> Westfield, MA 01086-1630
> 
> Please join Traces director Katrina Browne for a screening of Traces of the
> Trade: A Story from the Deep North at Westfield State College's Scanlon
> Banquet Hall.  The screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion.
> www.tracesofthetrade.org
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> "Powerful is an inadequate word to describe the impact of Katrina Browne's
> Traces of the Trade...[her] clear-headed film represents an intense and
> searing call for national dialogue."            
>                        - Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
> 
> "This is more than one family's painful reckoning. This is the nation's story
> - one that strips away the North's heroic mantle..."
>                        - Cecelia Goodnow, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
> In Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, 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 out to retrace the Triangle Trade: from their old hometown in
> Rhode Island to slave forts in Ghana, and 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. 
> For more information about the Traces of the Trade national community
> engagement campaign contact Jennifer Carr, National Outreach Director at
> jcarr at tracesofthetrade.org, or visit tracesofthetrade.org. 
> 
> Traces of the Trade / Ebb Pod Productions | PO Box 380302 | Cambridge | MA |
> 02238
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>  Dear Sam,
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> Please join us for a
> Screening of Traces of the Trade
> 
>    
> Monday, February 9, 2009
> 7:00pm Screening at Westfield State College's
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> Trade: A Story from the Deep North at Westfield State College's Scanlon
> Banquet Hall.  The screening will be followed by a Q discussion.
> 
> 
> 
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>         
>       
>  "Powerful is an inadequate word to describe the impact of Katrina Browne's
> Traces of the Trade...[her] clear-headed film represents an intense and
> searing call for national dialogue."
>                        - Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
> 
> "This is more than one family's painful reckoning. This is the nation's story
> - one that strips away the North's heroic mantle..."
>                         - Cecelia Goodnow, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
> 
> 
> In Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, 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 out to retrace the Triangle Trade: from their old hometown in
> Rhode Island to slave forts in Ghana, and 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.
> 
> For more information about the Traces of the Trade national community
> engagement campaign contact Jennifer Carr, National Outreach Director at
> jcarr at tracesofthetrade.org, or visit tracesofthetrade.org
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