by Tom DeWolf | Jul 4, 2009 | Inheriting the Trade, Traces of the Trade
It has been 8 years since I joined nine distant cousins to retrace the triangle slave trade route of our ancestors to make the film Traces of the Trade, and since I began writing Inheriting the Trade about my experience of that journey. I thought some folks might be...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 30, 2009 | History, Genealogy, Inheriting the Trade
One of the most influential scholars in the field of African history recently died. Philip Curtin helped found the African Languages and Literature Department at the University of Wisconsin; the first such department in the United States according to the American...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 25, 2009 | History, Genealogy, Inheriting the Trade, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Traces of the Trade
Does anyone out there know Chris Matthews, host of Hardball on MSNBC? I’d like to send him a copy of my book, Inheriting the Trade. My impression is that, like my own, his education lacked some aspects of our nation’s history that have been kept hidden...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 10, 2009 | Inheriting the Trade, Politics, Traces of the Trade
I took this photo while visiting Trinidad, Cuba in 2001 during our family journey that became my book, Inheriting the Trade, and my cousin Katrina Browne’s film Traces of the Trade, which P.O.V. aired on PBS last summer. I always pay close attention to news...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 1, 2009 | Appearances by Tom, Healthy Living, Inheriting the Trade, Traces of the Trade
I’ve been invited to speak in San Jose, California this Thursday evening, June 4, by the Santa Clara County Black Infant Health Program Advisory Board. I’ll be discussing our family journey that resulted in the publication of my book, Inheriting the Trade,...
by Tom DeWolf | May 27, 2009 | Books, Reviews, Coming to the Table, Inheriting the Trade
I received exciting news this morning from Gayatri Patnaik, Senior Editor at Beacon Press (and editor of my book, Inheriting the Trade) that Beacon announced today “an exclusive agreement to partner with the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. in a new publishing...
