The Queen Anne Movie Guild presents a free showing of: “Traces of the Trade: A Story From The Deep North” on Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 7:00pm at the Queen Anne United Methodist Church, 1606  5th Ave W, Seattle 98119.  The film is produced and directed by Katrina Browne, co-produced by Elizabeth Delude-Dix and Juanita Capri Brown.

Enjoy comments provided by guest Patricia Russell, one-time student dean and adjunct faculty at Antioch University where she wrote her dissertation on the psychological effects of slavery on a contemporary African American family.

Synopsis of the movie: The DeWolfe family: scions of Rhode  Island society, proud of their deep, strong New England roots, patriotic Americans. A family tree reveals that the DeWolfe forefathers made their vast fortune from the slave trade. This documentary follows ten members of the family as they retrace the triangle trade route of their ancestors, a route that started in Bristol, Rhode Island, went to the coast of Ghana, through Cuba, continued to Charleston, South Carolina and ended back in Bristol. This is a family’s journey as they struggle to come to grips with this here-to-fore hidden part of their identity. Along the way, we will all discover the extent to which slavery and human trafficking is woven into the very fabric of our American life, South and North. The conversation about race in American has begun.

Queen Anne Movie Guild is a volunteer group of QA residents who screen independent documentary movies focused on community building, sustainability, self-sufficiency, and environmental stewardship.