CBS’s “The Early Show” interviews Katrina,Tom & Juanita
July 9th, 2008The Early Show on CBS aired a live interview on Monday, July 14 with director Katrina Browne, co-producer Juanita Brown, and family member Tom DeWolf. Tom appears in the film and has written a book, Inheriting the Trade, chronicling his personal transformation during and after the journey.
The interview was conducted by Early Show anchor Harry Smith, who wrote about the film when it first aired on PBS:
… the journey is painful, tearful and revealing. …and the film displays the difficult road toward reconciliation. See it or get it or pick up the book by Katrina’s cousin Tom DeWolf.
Tom DeWolf to appear at 10th Harlem Book Fair
June 30th, 2008Tom DeWolf, family member and author of Inheriting the Trade, will participate in a panel discussion, to be televised live on C-SPAN, at the 10th Harlem Book Fair on July 19.
The panel, “From the Door of No Return: The Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” will be moderated by Howard Dodson, the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Other scheduled panelists include Rosanne Marion Adderley (New Negroes from Africa: Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean), Sylviane A. Diouf (Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Last Africans Brought to America), and David Eltis (Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database).
The panel is from 4:00-5:30pm in the Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, N.Y.
“Traces of the Trade” featured in the Washington Post
June 30th, 2008The Washington Post ran a feature story on Saturday, June 28, on Traces of the Trade, headlined “A Family Discovers Its History of Shackles and Shame.”
The article, on the front page of the Post’s Style section, features interviews with director Katrina Browne and co-producer Juanita Brown. The story ran in advance of the Washington-area television premiere of the documentary on June 29.
