Description
Original Airdate09/14/2020
Chronicling 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World.
Enslaved
Related To Enslaved
Season 1
6. Abolition
Air Date 10/19/2020
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.
5. Resistance
Air Date 10/12/2020
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.
4. New World Cultures
Air Date 10/05/2020
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.
3. Follow the Money
Air Date 09/28/2020
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.
2. Rationalization
Air Date 09/21/2020
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.
1. Cultures Left Behind
Air Date 09/14/2020
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.