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Enslaved
| Enslaved | |
| Premiere | Canada October 18, 2020 USA September 14, 2020 |
| Finale | Canada November 22, 2020 USA October 19, 2020 |
| Host | Samuel L. Jackson |
| Network/Provider | CBC (Canada)
Epix (USA) |
| Style | 60-minute docuseries |
| Company | Associated Producers, Cornelia Street Productions, CBC Television, Anonymous Content, UppiTV |
| Distributor | Fremantle (international) |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Origin | Canada / UK |
| Official Site | Epix CBC |
Led by icon and activist Samuel L. Jackson, Enslaved sheds new light on 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World. Based on a DNA test identifying his ancestral tribe, the series traces Jackson's personal journey from the U.S. to Gabon for his induction into the Benga tribe, with rare and unprecedented access to secret ceremonies and local customs.
Using new diving technology - such as advanced 3D mapping and ground-penetrating radar - to locate and examine sunken slave ships on three continents, the series reveals an entirely new perspective on the history of the transatlantic slave trade. The series also tracks the efforts of Diving With a Purpose (DWP), a collaborating organization with The National Association of Black Scuba Divers (NABS), as they search for and locate six slave ships that sank drowning the enslaved humans aboard. Featuring the most dives ever made on sunken slave ships, Enslaved also chronicles the first positive identification of a "Freedom Ship," an American schooner that ferried African American runaways to Canada.
Each episode follows three separate story lines: the quest for a sunken slave ship, a personal journey by Samuel L. Jackson and a historical investigation led by investigative journalists Simcha Jacobovici and Afua Hirsch.
Enslaved also celebrates stories of resistance, accomplishment and hope; the cultures left behind and the culture that we live in presently... a culture that, in many ways, was born in the bowels of those sunken slave ships.
Contents |
Episodes
| # | Title | Original Canadian airdate |
USA airdate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cultures Left Behind | October 18, 2020 | September 14, 2020 | ||||
| 2 | Rationalization | October 25, 2020 | September 21, 2020 | ||||
| 3 | Follow the Money | November 1, 2020 | September 28, 2020 | ||||
| 4 | New World Cultures | November 8, 2020 | October 5, 2020 | ||||
| 5 | Resistance | November 15, 2020 | October 12, 2020 | ||||
| 6 | Abolition | November 22, 2020 | October 19, 2020 |
In-Depth
- At a Glance: Additional information about the series
DVD Releases
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