Name: Enslaved
Released: 2020-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Afua Hirsch, Ty Hurley, Simcha Jacobovici

TV Show · Documentary · History

Enslaved is a six-episode docuseries that explores 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World by following the efforts of Diving with a Purpose, as they search for and locate six slave ships that went down with their human cargo. Executive produced and featuring award-winning actor Samuel L. Jackson, the series tracks the efforts of divers as they utilize new methods of underwater archaeology to identify and locate these sunken slave ships for the first time in history. These modern day adventures serve as a springboard to tell the stories of the ideology, economics and politics of slavery, while also celebrating stories of resistance, the cultures left behind and the culture that we live in.

2020 · 58m

Starring Afua Hirsch, Ty Hurley, Simcha Jacobovici

EPISODE 1

Cultures Left Behind

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.
EPISODE 2

Rationalization

How did the ideology of racism begin?
EPISODE 3

Follow the Money

This episode investigates the economics of the slave trade.
EPISODE 4

New World Cultures

This episode explores the fact that much of the “New World’s” culture was born in the bowels of slave ships.
EPISODE 5

Resistance

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”.
EPISODE 6

Abolition

The final episode explores the politics that brought the enslavement of Africans in the West to an end. Diving with a Purpose divers search for “The London,” a ship that re-enslaved freed Africans from St. Lucia and illegally trafficked them to England.

Exterminate All the Brutes
Slavery and the Making of America
The 1619 Project
Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Emancipation Road
Concerning Violence
Native American History
Native America

Afua Hirsch

Self
Ty Hurley

Lawman
Simcha Jacobovici

Actor
Kinga Philipps

Diver
Lasco Atkins

Sailor
Samuel L. Jackson

Host
Felix Golubev

Producer
Ric Esther Bienstock

Producer
Samuel L. Jackson

Producer
LaTanya Richardson Jackson

Producer
Eli Selden

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Enslaved

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Enslaved is a six-episode docuseries that explores 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World by following the efforts of Diving with a Purpose, as they search for and locate six slave ships that went down with their human cargo. Executive produced and featuring award-winning actor Samuel L. Jackson, the series tracks the efforts of divers as they utilize new methods of underwater archaeology to identify and locate these sunken slave ships for the first time in history. These modern day adventures serve as a springboard to tell the stories of the ideology, economics and politics of slavery, while also celebrating stories of resistance, the cultures left behind and the culture that we live in.

Season 1

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