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Enslaved

Season 1
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.
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  1. S1 E1 - Cultures Left Behind
    September 13, 2020
    53min
    TV-MA
    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.
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  2. S1 E2 - Rationalization
    September 20, 2020
    53min
    TV-MA
    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.
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  3. S1 E3 - Follow the Money
    September 27, 2020
    53min
    TV-MA
    Shot on location in Suriname, Brazil, Portugal and the UK, 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.
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  4. S1 E4 - New World Cultures
    October 4, 2020
    53min
    TV-MA
    Samuel L. Jackson visits Africatown, Alabama, 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.
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  5. S1 E5 - Resistance
    October 11, 2020
    53min
    TV-MA
    Explore the African 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.
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  6. S1 E6 - Abolition
    October 18, 2020
    53min
    TV-MA
    The finale explores 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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Subtitles
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Directors
Simcha Jacobovici
Cast
Samuel L. Jackson
Studio
Originals
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