RICH Awards Mini Grant to San Francisco Film Society to Further Work on Traces of the Trade

Funds Will Support Ongoing Cuba Research

RICH has awarded a $2,000 mini grant to the San Francisco Film Society to support Traces of the Trade: Ongoing Cuba Research. The funds support expenses to send D'Wolf descendents (Katrina Browne and James DeWolf Perry) to Cuba for a research trip to meet with Cuban scholars of the slave trade, to investigate archival records in Cuba, to develop research collaborations with local academic institutions to foster further exploration of Rhode Island - Cuban historical connections through the slave trade, and to seek to locate descendents of people enslaved by the D'Wolfs.