The mission growing out of the film is now being carried out by the Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery
Senate to consider apology for slavery
Posted June 14th, 2009 by James DeWolf PerrySen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has introduced a resolution into the U.S. Senate under which Congress would apologize for the nation’s history of slavery and racial discrimination.
The resolution acknowledges the nation’s long and brutal history of slavery and racial discrimination and apologizes to black Americans “on behalf of the people of the United States.”
Connecticut issues apology for slavery
Posted June 5th, 2009 by James DeWolf PerryThe state of Connecticut this week became the first New England state to apologize for its role in slavery.
The apology took the form of a joint resolution of the state’s General Assembly. In the resolution, the legislature expressed “profound contrition” for the state’s troubled role in slavery and the slave trade and vowed to “work for the elimination of residual structures of racism that continue to exist in our state.”
Connecticut is the eighth state to apologize for slavery in the last two years, and only the second northern state (after New Jersey).
For more information about the apology and the historical role which Connecticut played in slavery, please see here and here.
Traces of the Trade wins Henry Hampton Award
Posted March 23rd, 2009 by James DeWolf PerryTraces of the Trade has received a Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film & Digital Media from the Council on Foundations and Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media (GFEM).
