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Joanne Pope Melish speaks on slavery, emancipation, and race in New England

Posted October 21st, 2010 by
Category: History, News and Announcements

Historian Joanne Pope Melish will speak tonight in the Boston area about New England’s amnesia regarding the region’s role in slavery and its consequences for the development of racial attitudes over the generations.

Joanne is a noted expert on northern slavery and the process of gradual emancipation in New England, and is the author of Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860. She has frequently worked with the Tracing Center on its programming around issues of slavery and race, and is featured at our fall teacher workshops in Michigan and Rhode Island.

The talk, “The Worm in the Apple: Slavery, Emancipation, and Race in New England,” will take place at 7:00pm at Myrtle Baptist Church, 21 Curve Street, Newton. The program is sponsored by Historic Newton as part of their outstanding lecture series, “Encountering Slavery and Race in New England.”



A.P. story on Tracing Center visit to Cuba

Posted April 1st, 2010 by
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The Associated Press is running a story, “US family finds traces of slave-trade past in Cuba,” about the ten-day trip to Cuba just completed by Executive Director Katrina Browne, Director of Research James DeWolf Perry, and Project Director Tulaine Marshall of the Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery.

The story, written by A.P. reporter Will Weissert, focuses on the visit paid by Browne, Perry, and Marshall to the site of Mount Hope, a coffee plantation near Madruga owned by Perry’s ancestor James D’Wolf. D’Wolf was the leading slave-trader in U.S. history, sending the majority of his slaving voyages to Cuba, and he would work slaves on plantations like Mount Hope while waiting for prices in Havana’s slave market to rise.

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Press release on visit to Cuba

Posted March 18th, 2010 by
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, March 18, 2010

En español

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/.

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