Martin Luther King had a dream that children of former slaves and slave owners would gather at "the table of brotherhood." Coming to the Table was birthed in a community of these descendants who are committed to establishing a national reconciliation process to help society heal from the trauma of the legacy of slavery and racism. Learn about trauma, cycles of victimhood and violence, and the tendency for these to be passed on unless conscious choices are made to break those cycles. Experience ways to face hidden history truthfully and without fear; listen to one another's stories; explore healing resources for individuals and communities.

Belvie Rooks is an African American woman whose family story of enslavement is chronicled in The Seeds of Sally Good'n: A Black Family in Arkansas, 1833 - 1953. Thomas DeWolf, a white male descendant of the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, retraces his ancestors' steps through the notorious Triangle Trade in his memoir Inheriting the Trade. You're invited to join them in a deeper conversation about race. Explore the hidden slave history of the North and how the traumas of that era still reverberate today. Join the urgent call for honest and opened-hearted dialogue in a nation ready for healing.