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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.

Enslaved

Abolition

Exploring 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.

Resistance

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.

New World Cultures

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.

Follow the Money

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.

Rationalization

The 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; actor Samuel L. Jackson goes to meet the tribe of his ancestors.

Cultures Left Behind

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A history of slavery through underwater archaeology, retracing the voyage that brought millions to a life of slavery.

S1 E3 | Follow the Money