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NPR’s roundtable on RI slave trade
10:10AM ON
10/08/2008
BY
Dave Segal
Michel Martin and Tell Me More were at the Black Rep recently to discuss RI’s commemoration of the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Host Michel Martin kicks off Rhode Island’s Freedom Festival with a conversation on a bicentennial commemoration, marking the end of the transatlantic slave trade.
Martin is joined by Katrina Browne, writer, director and producer of the documentary Traces of the Trade; James Campbell, professor of Africana Studies at Brown University; Mary-Kim Arnold, executive director of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and the Rev. Jeffery A. Williams, pastor at the Cathedral of Life church.
You can listen to the piece, which was broadcast nationally, here.
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