Enslaved

Launching the epic story of the transatlantic slave trade, as told from the ocean floor, divers from Diving With a Purpose go in search of sunken slave ships, while Hollywood icon Samuel L. Jackson goes to meet the tribe of his ancestors.

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 people from African countries to an end. Shot on location in the United Kingdom, the United States and Ghana, episode 6 intercuts the politics of abolition in Britain and the American Civil War with the search for The London , a ship that re enslaved freed Africans from St. Lucia and illegally trafficked them to England.