Atlantic slave trade

Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson episode 2: Samuel L Jackson – with journalists Afua Hirsch and Simcha Jacobovici – examines how, for over 400 years, the trans-Atlantic slave trade became the greatest wealth-generating machine the world had known and the engine that drove the global economy.

Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson episode 1: Samuel L Jackson traces his ancestry to Gabon, visiting the coastal area of Loango National Park to see from where his enslaved ancestors were shipped in their millions to the Americas.