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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading

by Thomas Dewolf

ISBN13: 9780807072929
ISBN10: 0807072923
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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 inwhich ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the notorious triangle trade route--from New England to West Africa to Cuba--and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the othernorthern states.

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ISBN:: 9780807072929
Publisher:: Beacon Press
Subject:: Biography & Autobiography : General
Author:: Dewolf, Thomas
Author:: Dewolf, Thomas Norman
Publication Date:: January 2008
Binding:: eBooks
Language:: English

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