While talking about how to reconstruct, reconnect, re-interpret, we also take a look at how other people take apart their family history.  We are watching a documentary by a woman named Katrina, who has decided to research her family history.  She was able to find out through her grandmother that her family, DeWolf, had played a major role in the enslavement of many African people in Bristol, Rhode Island.  She wanted to learn further about her family’s participation in the salve trade so she decided to begin this journey and in doing so she contacted around 200 of her family members, in which only 9 responded.  As Katrina ad her nine family members embarked on this journey, her cousin Tom in particular made the notion that he will not support the choice that his family made in partaking in the slave trade but he also did not live in their shoes.  In my opinion, I think that she is very brave in doing what she is doing. Some people once they find out some embarrassing stuff about their past, they are too ashamed to further their investigation. All in all this just encourages me and makes me more eager to want to learn about my ancestors and history. 

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