This event will be held on Friday, April 15th at 6:30 PM inside the Indian Temple Mound Museum Lazarus Education Center during Downtown Art Walk in Fort Walton Beach. It is free and open to the public.
This event is in collaboration with POV, a PBS award-winning nonfiction film series and is part of a free program of film screenings titled POV Film Screening and Event Series hosted by Heritage Park and Full Circle Art Gallery. will host a screening of the PBS documentary film ?
Film Synopsis: Traces of the Tradeis a unique and disturbing journey of discovery into the history and "living consequences" of one of the nation's most shameful episodes ? slavery. One might think the tragedy of African slavery in the Americas has been exhaustively told. Katrina Browne thought the same, until she discovered that her slave-trading ancestors from Rhode Island were not an aberration. Rather, they were just the most prominent actors in the North's vast complicity in slavery, buried in myths of Northern innocence.
Browne ? a direct descendant of Mark Anthony DeWolf, the first slaver in the family ? took the unusual step of writing to 200 descendants, inviting them to journey with her from Rhode Island to Ghana to Cuba and back, recapitulating the Triangle Trade that made the DeWolfs the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Nine relatives signed up. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North is Browne's spellbinding account of the journey that resulted.
We would love to see you downtown. Before and after the film visit the artists, craftspeople, and musicians along Highway 98 during the Downtown Art Walk. These are held every third Friday of the month throughout the year. Come see what is happening downtown!
Gail Lynn Meyer, Museum Manager
City of Fort Walton Beach Heritage Park & Cultural Center
139 Miracle Strip Parkway SE
Fort Walton Beach, Florida 32548
(850) 833-9595
