The Living Consequences

For readers in the Boston area, Tom DeWolf will be appearing at the Harvard Coop tomorrow to promote his book, Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History.

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The House Judiciary Committee has released the witness list for tomorrow’s hearing, by the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, on the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade.

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I went yesterday to a talk given by Randall Robinson at Harvard Law School, based on his latest book, An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President.

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We interviewed Professor Charles Ogletree of Harvard Law School for Traces of the Trade, in which he provides a sobering assessment of race in our society today, as well as one of the film’s most popular and light-hearted lines. Professor Ogletree, who is a leading figure in the reparations movement and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, has offered the following thoughts about Inheriting the Trade:

“Inheriting the Trade is a candid, powerful and insightful book about how one family dealt with the infamous slave trade. This book is jarring in its candor, and revealing in its honest assessment of slavery and the Dewolf family. We must read important books like this one, if we dare to appreciate every aspect of our history, and as the Dewolf family does, dare to change our judgments about the wretched history of slavery.”