Title: Inheriting the trade : a Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history /
Authors: DeWolf, Thomas Norman, 1954-
Publisher: Beacon Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: DeWolf, Charles, Family.; DeWolf, Thomas Norman, Family.; DeWolf, Thomas Norman, Travel New England.; DeWolf, Thomas Norman, Travel Africa, West.; DeWolf, Thomas Norman, Travel Cuba.; Slave traders New England Biography.; Slave trade New England History.; Slave trade Africa, West History; Slave trade Cuba History.; New England Biography.
Abstract: "In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the notorious triange trade route -- from New England to West Africa to Cuba -- and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states."--Cover.
Contents: Growing up white -- "Frail limb'd, well fed, and speaks good English" -- "So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord!" -- The great folks -- "I tremble for my country ..." -- Akwaaba -- "Under a patchwork of scars" -- The door of no return -- "I have to do it every day" -- Gye Nyame -- The middle passage -- La habana -- "Our nice Protestant selves" -- Arca de Noé -- In the fishbowl -- My Harvard education -- Repairing the breach -- Sankofa.