Announcing the Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery
Posted April 1st, 2010 by James DeWolf PerryTraces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North and Ebb Pod Productions are pleased to announce the formation of a partner organization, the Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery.
The Tracing Center has been formed by people who have long been involved in Traces of the Trade and in the use of the film for national and international outreach efforts involving the history and legacy of slavery. Their intention is to broaden and deepen those efforts and to develop related programming. This development will also allow Ebb Pod Productions to focus on its core mission as a film production company.
For more on the Tracing Center, please see its new web site at www.tracingcenter.org.
A.P. story on Traces participants in Cuba
Posted April 1st, 2010 by James DeWolf PerryThe Associated Press has a story out about a return visit to Cuba by two DeWolf descendants featured in Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North.
The story, “US family finds traces of slave-trade past in Cuba,” covers a just-completed trip to Cuba by Producer/Director Katrina Browne and historical consultant James DeWolf Perry, both of whom also appear in the film, along with Tulaine Marshall, who works with them at the Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery.
On the trip, the trio visited the site of Mount Hope, a Cuban slave plantation owned by Perry’s fifth-great grandfather, James D’Wolf, the leading slave trader in U.S. history. They also held the Cuban premiere of Traces of the Trade, spoke at a number of public events, participated in activities surrounding the voyage of the Schooner Amistad to Matanzas and Havana, and reunited with Cubans who were in the film, advised the project, or were part of the Cuban crew during filming.
For more on the A.P. story and the visit to Cuba, see Perry’s blog, The Living Consequences.
Press release on Traces visit to Cuba
Posted March 18th, 2010 by James DeWolf PerryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Katrina Browne, Producer/Director, Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Executive Director, The Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery
kbrowne@tracesofthetrade.org o: 617-349-0019 c: 617-290-5275
Ms. Browne will be in Cuba from March 22-30, so may not be reachable then.
Marga Varea, Events and Development Director, The Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery mvarea@tracesofthetrade.org o: 617-349-0019 c: 617-710-5436
The Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery is pleased to announce that three representatives of the 2009 Emmy®-nominated documentary Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North will be traveling to Cuba with the Freedom Schooner Amistad next week. We are honored to be able to hold the Cuba premiere of the film during the Amistad’s visit. The ship is visiting Cuba from March 22-31 as part of the United Nations commemoration of March 25 as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. For the press release from Amistad America please see: http://www.amistadamerica.org/content/view/1994/257/.
