Tue 27 Dec, 2011
| Tags: Traces of the Trade, Tracing Center |
The Tracing Center’s year-end newsletter is now available, highlighting what my colleagues and I have accomplished in 2011:
Sun 9 Jan, 2011
| Tags: Charleston S.C., Civil War sesquicentennial, Fernando Wood, Fort Sumter, Tracing Center, U.S. Civil War |
Today is the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War.
On January 9, 1861, shore batteries in Charleston, South Carolina opened fire on the steamer Star of the West as that merchant ship attempted to reach Fort Sumter with fresh troops and supplies. The Star of the West was hit and forced to retreat, setting the stage for a wider conflict to break out in April, when Fort Sumter would run out of food and be forced to surrender if not reinforced.
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Thu 18 Nov, 2010
| Tags: Dominican Republic, Goodwin Liu, Juanita Brown, Katrina Browne, Racial profiling, Racial stereotypes, Traces of the Trade, Tracing Center |
“Quick Takes” offers a mix of news, opinion, and research related to race, privilege, and inequality.
Today’s “Quick Takes” includes racial profiling, textbooks with offensive stereotypes, movement on the Goodwin Liu nomination, and our film being screened in the Dominican Republic.
Readers are encouraged to share these stories and to offer their thoughts at the end of the post.
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Thu 18 Mar, 2010
| Tags: Cuba, D'Wolf family, Katrina Browne, Schooner Amistad, Traces of the Trade, Tracing Center |
I can now share that three of us from Traces of the Trade—director Katrina Browne, Tulaine Marshall, and I, are scheduled to travel to Cuba next week for the visit of the Amistad.
We are scheduled to sail into Havana’s harbor on board the Amistad on March 25, in conjunction with the United Nations International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
We also expect to hold the Cuban premiere of the documentary, which was filmed in part on location in Cuba, in Havana on March 27.
Katrina and I have not been back to Cuba since filming Traces of the Trade, and we are eager to share the film with the Cuban people, as well as to engage in further historical research on the D’Wolf slave trade, continue the search for slave plantations owned by the D’Wolfs, and look for descendants of those enslaved by the D’Wolf family. We are also looking forward to reuniting with those who helped us make the film, including Cuban filmmaker Boris Crespo, who was our Cuban line producer.
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Thu 18 Mar, 2010
| Tags: Cuba, Schooner Amistad, Traces of the Trade, Tracing Center |
It’s official: The Amistad will sail to Cuba next week.
The schooner Amistad, the replica of the famous ship which experienced a slave revolt in 1839 and a subsequent court case, will sail to Cuba next week for a ten-day visit at the conclusion of its 2010 Caribbean Heritage Tour.
Amistad is scheduled to arrive in Cuba on March 22. The vessel will first visit Matanzas, a port that is closely associated with slavery in Cuba and the site of a UNESCO-sponsored slavery museum. On March 25, Amistad will sail to Havana for a week-long port call and a variety of public events.
The Amistad‘s visit to Cuba coincides with the United Nation’s International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on March 25. Activities will include a three-hour simulcast to the United Nations in New York. This will also be the tenth anniversary of the launching of the replica Amistad from Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.
Those of us associated with Traces of the Trade and the Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery are proud to be partnered with Amistad America in support of this tour.
