Announcing the Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery

Posted April 1st, 2010 by James DeWolf Perry

Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North and Ebb Pod Productions are pleased to announce the formation of a partner organization, the Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery.

The Tracing Center has been formed by people who have long been involved in Traces of the Trade and in the use of the film for national and international outreach efforts involving the history and legacy of slavery. Their intention is to broaden and deepen those efforts and to develop related programming. This development will also allow Ebb Pod Productions to focus on its core mission as a film production company.

For more on the Tracing Center, please see its new web site at www.tracingcenter.org.

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De Wolfe, Russell J.

I am a dec. of “Rhode Island D’Wolfs,” the decendants of Simon Dewolf, with our common decendant from Balthasar De Wolf, (Baltazar de wolfe) of Lime, Conn. (1688).

Are you in the same line? Or am I looking in the wrong place?
http://living.jdewperry.com/ James DeWolf Perry

Hello, Russell. You’re more or less in the right place: This project is about the slave-trading Rhode Island D’Wolfs, all of whom are descended from Balthazar D’Wolf of Lyme, Connecticut.

Most of us are descended from Mark Anthony D’Wolf (1726-1793) of Bristol, R.I., who was a great-grandson of Balthazar D’Wolf. His grandfather, one of Balthazar’s sons, was named Simon

However, one of us is descended from Mark Anthony’s brother, Simon DeWolf (1719-1761). Is that the Simon DeWolf you’re referring to? Or would it be an earlier Simon, perhaps one of Balthazar’s sons in the 17th century?
curtis w, morrison

i’m highly impressed to see a person stand up and allow them self to be recognized for something so horrific.

Announcing the Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery

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