Hollywood icon and human rights activist Samuel L. Jackson goes on a personal journey to Africa, launching the epic story of the transatlantic slave trade, as told from the ocean floor.

How did the ideology of racism begin?

This episode investigates the economics of the slave trade.

This episode explores the fact that much of the "New World’s" culture was born in the bowels of slave ships.

This episode investigates African resistance to slavery in Africa, the diaspora, and the United States where thousands of "runaways" risked their lives as part of the "Underground Railroad".

The final episode in this definitive series on the transatlantic slave trade explores the politics that brought the enslavement of Africans in the West to an end.