Director, producer & writer
Katrina Browne
Co-director, editor & writer
Alla Kovgan
Co-director & executive producer
Jude Ray
Co-producer & executive producer
Elizabeth Delude-Dix
Co-producer
Juanita Brown
Director of photography
Liz Dory
Production sound mixer
Jeffrey Livesey
Original score by
Roger C. Miller
Animation
Handcranked Productions
Supervising editor
William Anderson
Consulting producers
William Anderson
Llewellyn Smith
Associate producers
Sara Archambault
Catherine Benedict
Heather Kapplow
Leslie Koren
Beth Sternheimer
Production Unit, United States:
Line producers
Amy Geller
Lucia Small
Second unit camera
Allison Humenuk
Second unit sound
Stewart Adam
Gaffer/grip
Steven Ramsey
Production Unit, Ghana:
Line producer
Africanus Aveh
Content consultant & facilitator
Kofi Peprah
Second unit camera
Amishadai Sackitey
Second unit sound
Ebenezer Quaye
Gaffer/grip
Francis Kpatah
Production Unit, Cuba:
Line producer
Boris Ivan Crespo
Production coordination & research
Patrice Migliori-Farnes
Unit production manager
Santiago Llapur
Second unit camera
Ariam R. Grass
Second unit sound
Ricardo Perez Ramos
Gaffer
Luis Manuel Escuela
Electrician
Ovidio Gaston
Translators
Maria Teresa Ortega
Lisa Maria Cabrera
Post-Production:
Script consultants
Patricia Garcia Rios
Adam Zucker
Historical consultants
Ronald Bailey
Kevin Jordan
James Perry
Joanne Pope Melish
Researcher
Jennifer Anderson
Sound mix
Richard Bock
On-line editor & colorist
Michael H. Amundson
Music supervisors
Daniel Arriaga
Alla Kovgan
Music consultant
Marc Gidal
Assistants to producer/director
Maria Edwards
Leslie Koren
Jessica Majno
Liz Martins
Darcie Moore
Meredith Vass
Margaret Warren
DeWolf descendants appearing in the film:
Katrina Browne
Keila DePoorter
Tom DeWolf
Holly Fulton
Elly Hale
Ledlie Laughlin
Dain Perry
James Perry
Jim Perry
Elizabeth Sturges Llerena
Special thanks to others appearing in the film:
Kevin Jordan
Elizabeth Warren
Joanne Pope Melish
Ronald Bailey
Kofi Anyidoho
Robert Addo-Fening
Rockson Yaw Moro
Juanita Brown
Kofi Peprah
Josephine Watts
Jessie Ruth Gaston
Zoila Lapique
Harold Fields
Glenn Loury
Charles Ogletree
John Vanderstar
Carolyn Jones
Sheila Sims
Lynne Washington
Michael Kendall
Jayne Oasin
David Dobbins
Archival materials courtesy of:
Bettmann/CORBIS
Bristol Historical and Preservation Society
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
George Eastman House
Historic Deerfield
Lewiston Public Library
Joanne Pope Melish
The New York Public Library
Providence Public Library
Rhode Island Historical Society
the Rockwell family
Special thanks:
The Family of Ten
Elizabeth and Stanhope Browne
my grandmother,
Rosalind Howe Sturges Allen
Macky Alston
Orlando Bagwell
Ron Bailey
Edward Ball
John Bell
Lara Bergthold
Edith Buhs
Arrington Chambliss
Janet Cole
Chuck Collins
Jay Coughtry
Diane Dana
Harold Fields
Robert Forbes
Jane Gray
Angela Keiser
Pam Korza
John Lapham
Walter Leaphart
Norman Lear
Zena Link
Michele McConnell
Peggy McIntosh
Madeline McNeely
Joanne Pope Melish
Cara Mertes
David Miller
Jim Misenko
Joy Moore
Alyce Myatt
Drake Patten
Wayne Peacock
Carmichael Peters
Curran Reichert
Ed Rodman
Wendy Root
Ellen Schneider
Roderick Spencer
Gail Silva
Keith Stokes
Sam Waterston
Dedalus Wainwright
John White
Wayne Winborne
Maura Wolf
Alfre Woodard
The many people and institutions in Bristol
and throughout Rhode Island that supported us.
The extended family of DeWolf descendants and spouses.
Our many productions assistants and interns.
WGBH, Boston Media Productions, Filmmaker-in-Residence Program
St. John's Episcopal Church
Episcopal Divinity School
Fiscal sponsorship provided by:
The Film Arts Foundation
Major funding generously provided by:
Akonadi Foundation
The Animating Democracy Initiative
(a project of Americans for the Arts
funded by the Ford Foundation)
Threshold Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Ford Foundation
Sundance Institute Documentary Program
Trinity Grants Program
Additional funders:
William Graustein
Philadelphia Foundation
Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Lear Family Foundation
Social Justice Office, Episcopal Church Center
Michele McConnell
Coolidge Family Fund, Boston Foundation
Elizabeth Marshall Mott
Kealy Family Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
Prince Charitable Trusts
S. Ford Rowan
Three Dog Farm Foundation
and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
And others. A complete list is available from PBS.
Produced in association with WGBH, Boston.
This program was produced by Ebb Pod Productions LLC which is solely responsible for its content.
(c) 2008 Ebb Pod Productions LLC