Agency - English program:.Documentary Program - East. Atlantic. Agency:.Co-produced by ZIJI Film & Television Productions Ltd. and the NFB in association with CTV, with the participation of the Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, the Fundy Communications Production Fund, and Rogers Telefund, with the assistance of the Canadian Television and Cable Production Fund-License Fee Program and the Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit.

Director, Lesley Ann Patten ; script, Lesley Ann Patten ; producer, Lesley Ann Patten, Kent Martin ; cinematography, Kent Nason ; sound, Jane Porter ; editing, Peter Giffen ; sound editing, Peter Giffen ; music, Steven Naylor.

Participation, Carmelita Robertson, Ruth Holmes Whitehead.

Recorded 1999.

This documentary is the story of two women whose meeting brought together two halves of a whole story: that of slave owner and slave. Dr. Ruth Whitehead met graduate student Carmelita Robertson in 1995 when the younger woman came to do research at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax. Carmelita casually mentioned that her relatives had come to Nova Scotia from South Carolina as Black Loyalists in the late 1700s. As she recited the names of her ancestors, Ruth shuddered at the strange familiarity. She had come from South Carolina too. Ruth and Carmelita embark on a journey to Charleston in search of their connection, an undertaking that takes them to a modern South where the Klan is on trial for burning black churches. Beneath the dense foliage of the plantations, in the sweltering heat of white patronage and black forbearance, the two women come to terms with the thunderous cruelty of the past.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Award - Category: Best Social Issue, 1999 Canada Award, 1999 Golden Sheaf Award - Category: Best Multicultural / Race Relations, 2000

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).