https://www.tracingcenter.org/resources/background/james-dewolf/

“The DeWolf family fortune was built on the buying and selling of human beings.

DeWolf slave ships brought the enslaved from the west coast of Africa to auction blocks in Charleston, South Carolina and other southern U.S. ports; to Havana, Cuba and to other ports in the Caribbean; to their own sugar plantations in Cuba; and into their own homes.

James DeWolf owned a rum distillery, and he and his family started both a bank and an insurance company, all to profit even further from the slave trade. They…sent a family member to establish an auction house in Charleston, S.C., where many of their slaving voyages ended up.

In the 1790s and early 1800s, DeWolf and his brothers virtually built the economy of Bristol, Rhode Island: many of the buildings they funded still stand, and the stained glass windows at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church bear DeWolf names to this day.

Across the generations, their family has included state legislators, philanthropists, writers, scholars, and Episcopal bishops and priests…

Today, there are as many as half a million living descendants of the people traded as chattel by the DeWolfs.”

The present-day descendants of the DeWolf slave traders are involved in a nonprofit about slavery & even made a documentary exploring their own history of involvement. So they totally get it now, right?

Well, let's see:

Here are just a few of these slaver-colonizers.

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