Thomas Norman DeWolf, author of Inheriting the Trade will visit the Schoolcraft College campus in Livonia on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. He will speak at 1:15 p.m. in the VisTaTech Center. DeWolf's visit is sponsored by Pageturners Book Discussion grou Copies of Inheriting the Trade are available at a significant discount in the college's bookstores.

In addition to DeWolf's visit on April 6, Pageturners will present the documentary Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, produced and directed by DeWolf's cousin Katrina Browne on Tuesday, April 5. It will be shown at 6 p.m. in the Liberal Arts building in Room 200 on the college's main campus in Livonia.

In 2001, DeWolf discovered that he was the descendent of the most successful slave-trading dynasty in America. When his ancestor Senator James DeWolf died in 1837, he was reportedly the second-richest man in America. The documentary and the book chronicle the journey of DeWolfe, Browne and eight other family members as they retraced the steps of their ancestors.

All of the Pageturners events and discussions are free and open to the public. Visit http://sites.google.com/site/scpageturners/ for more information about these and other events throughout the year.