Samuel L Jackson, with journalists Afua Hirsch and Simcha Jacobovici, examines how the transatlantic slave trade became the greatest wealth generating machine the world had known and the engine that drove the global economy.

Samuel L Jackson and the team travel through the US to tell the stories of those who resisted slavery, often making the dangerous journey to freedom in Canada.

Samuel L Jackson and the team examine events that ended the slave trade and piece together the heritage and identity taken from the descendants of the millions of trafficked Africans. (Final)