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Inheriting the Trade, by Thomas DeWolf

“Thomas DeWolf was 47 before he made a horrifying discovery: An ancestor of his, James DeWolf, was the head of the most successful slave-trading family in American history. The DeWolfs financed 88 voyages which carried about 10,000 enslaved Africans to the New World – and in the process became one of New England’s most wealthy and powerful families. Talk about having a skeleton in the closet. The only slightly mitigating factor was the fact that Thomas did not descend directly from James; James was instead the nephew of Thomas’s direct ancestor, who was a carpenter from Connecticut. But that bit of distance wasn’t enough to cancel out the shame now associated with the name DeWolf.” Read the review at the Christian Science Monitor.

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