We've added two evening showing of a recently released film by called "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North" to the Black Loyalist 225 / Amistad Visit Program of events. (Watch the trailer)

Each of the showings will be held in the Maritime Museum Theatre, at 1675 Lower Water St. in Halifax.

Wednesday evening, July 30, at 7:00pm

Thursday evening, July 31, at 7:00pm.

Traces of the Trade had its world premiere as an Official Competition Selection in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. and its national, United States broadcast television premiere on the PBS award-winning independent documentary series P.O.V. on Tuesday, June 24 

Each evening, after the showing, a discussion of the film and its implications will be moderated by Wayne Bartow, who was one of the shipwrights involved in building the Amistad replica and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Amistad America.

One reviewer, Kirk Honeycutt, describes "Traces of the Trade" as  "An honest, painful and important doc about one family's confrontation with its legacy as slave traders."

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