Abolition

Over 12 million Africans were kidnapped and sold into slavery with 10 percent dying en route.The series tracks the efforts of Diving with a Purpose (DWP), as they search for and locate six slave ships that went down with their human cargo. It’s a story of brutality and inhumanity, but also of resistance, accomplishment and hope.

Abolition

Season 1 Episode 106 | 52m 3s | CC

The final episode explores the politics that brought the enslavement of Africans in the West to an end. Shot on location in the United Kingdom, the United States and Ghana, episode 6 intercuts the politics of abolition in Britain and the American Civil War with the search for “The London”, a ship that re-enslaved freed Africans from St. Lucia and illegally trafficked them to England.

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