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Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North,...
Season 21
Episode 1
When Katrina Browne discovered that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history, she and nine fellow descendants set off to retrace a dark past. From Rhode Island to slave forts in Ghana to sugar plantation ruins in Cuba, they uncover the vast extent of Northern complicity in slavery and confront the intricacy of race relations today. 2009 Emmy Nominee.
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