Katrina Browne interviewed on NPR
Posted June 24th, 2009 by James DeWolf PerryKatrina Browne is interviewed today on NPR’s “Tell Me More” about the recent passage of a Senate apology for slavery.
The interview, conducted by Michel Martin, can be heard online here.
Katrina, as a descendant of the nation’s leading slave-traders, was interviewed with Daniel Smith, a former civil rights activist and the son of a man born into slavery.
Katrina and Mr. Smith both emphasized that the Senate apology for slavery is merely a first step in the process of acknowledging the nation’s history of slavery and racial discrimination, and in addressing racial inequities in areas such as education and health care.
January 8th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
What is Katrina Browne’s ethnic history?
January 8th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Katrina Browne, as a descendant of the D’Wolf slave traders, is partly of their ethnicity: unknown, possibly Dutch, but presumably European in origin.
I don’t know the ethnic origins of the rest of her family tree, but I do know that she’s descended in part from later immigrants.
Did you have any particular reason for asking the question? I might be able to shed more light on the issue you’re getting at.