For more information about the DeWolf family:
Traces of the Trade, a film by Katrina Browne
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History by Thomas DeWolf
James DeWolf and the Rhode Island Slave Trade by Cynthia Mestad Johnson
Mount Hope: A New England Chronicle by George Locke Howe
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