A timely book from the Justice and Peacebuilding series, which has sold more than 170,000 copies.
Thomas Norman DeWolf Book order
Thomas Norman DeWolf is an author and speaker whose work delves into racial healing and reconciliation. His writings offer a practical approach to embodying racial healing, exploring the deep social wounds left by racism, violence, and injustice. Through his engaging prose, he invites readers to confront these issues with honesty and a spirit of kinship.
- 2019
- 2008
Inheriting the Trade
- 280 pages
- 10 hours of reading
A trailblazing memoir about one family’s quest to face its slave-trading past, and an urgent call for reconciliation In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the notorious triangle trade route—from New England to West Africa to Cuba—and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states. A difficult but necessary examination of the slave trade, racism, and privilege in the United States, Inheriting the Trade is a powerful call for white America to reassess what they have been taught about their own ancestors, about slavery and wealth, and about America both past and present.
