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Enslaved

Enslaved

—Chronicling 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World.
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Season 16 of 6 Episodes

  • Chronicling the story of the transatlantic slave trade as divers from Diving With a Purpose go in search of sunken slave ships; Samuel L. Jackson goes to meet the tribe of his ancestors.

  • Samuel L. Jackson recruits two notable journalists to go on a mission to understand the process that led Europeans to see slavery as not only profitable, but justified; in the English Channel, DWP divers locate the earliest slave wreck ever found.

  • Shot on location in Suriname, Brazil, Portugal and the U.K., the team investigates the economics of slave trade and searches for a sunken slave ship that represents the single greatest loss of life during this time in history.

  • Samuel L. Jackson visits Africatown, Ala., the only African town established in America; the Diving With a Purpose divers help youths in Costa Rica discover their African heritage, by diving and identifying a sunken slave ship off their coast.

  • Exploring the resistance to slavery in Africa and the thousands who risked their lives as part of the Underground Railroad; the DWP divers hope to identify a preserved wreck of a ship that ferried enslaved Africans to freedom.

  • Exploring the politics that brought the enslavement of Africans in the West to an end; DWP divers search for "The London," a ship that re-enslaved freed Africans from St. Lucia and illegally trafficked them to England.
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Chronicling 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World.

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Samuel Jackson

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