Abolition

S1 E6: 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.