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A Safe Place to Talk About Race

A Safe Place to Talk About Race

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July 9th 2012: My Ancestors Traded Slaves. So now what?

What do you want from me? I didn’t do it, don’t like it, and can’t change it. Some members of Katrina Browne’s family were once wealthy from the United States slave trade. But they’re from the North? Isn’t this a White Southern thing? Many schools teach or imply the Civil War was between the good White people of the North, and the bad White people of the South. The Deep South may have more Northern roots than we know about….until now. Why would a White person even want to ever dig up old family history on race and slavery? How did her family members respond to Ms. Browne’s research that coul

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Barbara R. Arnwine

Barbara R. Arnwine, Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, is internationally renowned for justice issues such as the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991 and international civil, human and women’s rights matters.
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Katrina Browne

Katrina Browne, Founder of The Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery, and produced/directed Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, about her slave-trading ancestors from Rhode Island.
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