First-time filmmaker Katrina Browne makes a troubling discovery — her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine fellow descendants set off to retrace the Triangle Trade: from their old hometown in Rhode Island to slave forts in Ghana to sugar plantation ruins in Cuba. Traces of the Trade had its national broadcast premiere on PBS on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, opening the 21st season of the P.O.V. documentary series. Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival 2008.

Simon Kilmurry, executive director, P.O.V.; Liz Dory, director of photography, Traces of the Trade; Jennifer Carr, national outreach director, Traces of the Trade; and Michelle Materre, outreach and distribution consultant, Traces of the Trade to follow

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