Resources

Online Resources

• Gather at the Table Tool Kit: Seven Ways to Use the Book to Enhance Personal & Community Healing Journeys
• Coming to the Table: People seeking to acknowledge, understand and heal the persistent wounds of the U.S. institution of slavery
• Center for Justice & Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University
• STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience)
• Our Black Ancestry (Sharon’s genealogy website)
• Inheriting the Trade (website for Tom’s first book)
• The Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery
• Project Implicit: a series of online “Implicit AssociationTests” to measure conscious and unconscious beliefs. Enlightening!
• You Can Fix Racism (Kudos to Damali Ayo for this great resource!)

Recommended Books

• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Joy DeGruy Leary (Uptone Press, 2005)
• The Hidden Wound, by Wendell Berry (North Point Press, 1989)
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander (The New Press, 2010)
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas Blackmon (Doubleday, 2008)
• Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It, by Shelly Tochluk (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2010)
• The Little Book of Trauma Healing: When Violence Strikes and Community is Threatened, by Carolyn Yoder (Good Books, 2005)
• The Little Book of Restorative Justice, by Howard Zehr (Good Books, 2002)
• Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations, by Roy L. Brooks (University of California Press, 2004)
• A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn (Harper, 2003)

Recommended Films

• The Ghost in Your Genes; the BBC documentary on Epigenetics, the newly emerging field of science that studies how past events (including trauma) trigger our genes in ways that are passed down through generations.
• Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North; the documentary in which Tom is featured and led to the writing of his first book. Ten relatives of the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history retrace the route of their ancestors through the notorious Triangle Slave Trade from New England to Ghana and Cuba.
• Shared History; directed by Felicia Furman, the story of descendants of slaves and slave owners who begin to explore their centuries-old connection.
• Moving Midway; directed by Godfrey Cheshire, a story of one Southern plantation, the descendants of people – black and white – connected to it, and the legacy of slavery.
• Meeting David Wilson; directed by David A. Wilson. Two men named David Wilson, one black and one white, meet to come to terms with their history: the white David’s ancestors once owned the black David’s ancestors.