1000 Years A Slave

Name: 1000 Years A Slave
Released: 2021-10-19T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Karen Bryson

TV Show · History · Documentary

Famous people with direct links to the slave trade go on journeys around the globe to document their connections to it and examine how it shaped the modern world.

2021 · 1h 0m

Starring Karen Bryson

Director Lucy Hershon

EPISODE 1

Open Wounds

Actors David Harewood and Hugh Quarshie explore opposite sides of the Atlantic slave trade, which saw an estimated 12 million Africans transported across the ocean and sold into a life of slavery.

1h
EPISODE 2

A Global Trade

In Jamaica, British actor Ray Fearon, who is descended from Maroons - enslaved Africans who escaped and resisted their captors - reads the diaries of planter Thomas Thistlewood.

1h
EPISODE 3

Fighting for Freedom

In Jamaica, British actor Ray Fearon, who is descended from Maroons - enslaved Africans who escaped and resisted their captors - reads the sadistic diaries of planter Thomas Thistlewood, who violently abused enslaved Africans who worked under him.

1h
EPISODE 4

The Reckoning

The murder of George Floyd shook the world and, within weeks, the statue of Britain's most famous slave trader was toppled by Black Lives Matter protestors. Historian Prof David Olusoga returns to the city to see the statue of Edward Colston.

1h