Inheriting the Trade
Subtitle: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: January 2, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780807072813
Subjects: Biography And Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Non-Classifiable; Personal Memoirs; Slavery; Biography & Autobiography / People of Color; Africa, West; Biography; History; New England; Slave trade; Slave traders
Description: "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.