Join us for a viewing of the documentary film, Traces of the Trade. Created by filmmaker (and Episcopal priest) Katrina Browne, the film recounts Browne's discovery that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine descendants take a trip to retrace the Triangle Trade, from their original hometown in Rhode Island, to slave forts in Ghana, to sugar plantation ruins in Cuba. Throughout the process, they uncover the vast extent of the North's complicity in slavery, and the legacy of structural and systemic racism.

The showing of this film is inspired by the story shared by Michelle Petty at the October 5 Compline service, where she told of her summer research trip to west Africa, including a moving description of her tour of the Slave Castles of Ghana (the same buildings which appear in Browne's documentary).

Link to the documentary website: http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/ 

• 6:00pm doors open

• 6:00-6:30pm find a seat, grab a snack

• 6:30pm screening of movie (run time: 90 minutes)

• 8:00-8:30pm debrief and discussion

• $5 freewill donation

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