Desc: Loyalties: Directed by Lesley Ann Patten. With Carmelita Robertson, Ruth Holmes Whitehead. The chance meeting between two women brings together two halves of an astonishing story of slavery. Carmelita Robertson met Dr. Ruth Whitehead in 1995 while doing graduate research at the Museam of Natural History in Halifax, Nova Scotia. With little in common but a mutual interest in geneology, the two women discover their ancestral relationship as slaveholder and slave in South Carolina, and travel together to visit the past.