First Global Visions Film Series is tonight The Global Visions Film Series begins its sixth year at UND. In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Global Visions will feature films on and about human rights from a global perspective. "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North" will be featured Tuesday, Nov. 4. Additional films in this series are: "The Day My God Died" (Nov. 18), and "No Man's Land" (Dec. 9). All films are shown at 7 p.m. in the Lecture Bowl, second floor, Memorial Union. The series is free and open to the public. Suggested donations are encouraged, but not required. For further information call 777-4718. The Global Vision Film Series (GVFS) is a forum that promotes diversity in North Dakota through screening award winning national and international films. The GVFS is sponsored by the students of the Anthropology Club in the Department of Anthropology, and is partially funded by the Multicultural Awareness Committee. Their goal is to provide the University and the Grand Forks community with the opportunity to experience films of exceptional quality from around the world, providing a broader understanding of and appreciation for the breadth, variety, and commonality of the human family. Additional films in this series are: "The Day My God Died" (Nov. 18), and "No Man's Land" (Dec. 9). All films are shown at 7 p.m. in the Lecture Bowl, second floor, Memorial Union. The series is free and open to the public. Suggested donations are encouraged, but not required. For further information call 777-4718. Film Synopsis By Katrina Brown "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North" is a unique and disturbing journey of discovery into the history and "living consequences" of one of the United States' most shameful episodes - slavery. In this bicentennial year of the U.S. abolition of the slave trade, one might think the tragedy of African slavery in the Americas has been exhaustively told. Browne thought the same, until she discovered that her slave-trading ancestors from Rhode Island were not an aberration. Rather, they were just the most prominent actors in the North's vast complicity in slavery, buried in myths of Northern innocence. Browne, a direct descendant of Mark Anthony DeWolf, the first slaver in the family, took the unusual step of writing to 200 descendants, inviting them to journey with her from Rhode Island to Ghana to Cuba and back, recapitulating the Triangle Trade that made the DeWolfs the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Nine relatives signed up. "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North" is Browne's spellbinding account of the journey that resulted. From this extraordinary family angle, "Traces of the Trade" sets out to plumb contentious questions: What is the full story of the Northern slave trade? What responsibility does white America bear for the past wrongs and contemporary legacy of slavery? Why is it so difficult for black and white Americans to have this conversation with each other? Intrepid, candid, intellectually engaged and, for better or for worse, "unfailingly Protestant and polite," Browne and her relatives set out to face the facts - and themselves. "Traces of the Trade" is an important historical corrective to America's view of slavery and its consequences, and a probing essay into divergent versions of a history that continues to divide black and white in America,in both the North and South.