1000 Years of Slavery Season 1 Episode 1 - Open Wounds

Airdate: 2021-Oct-19

Episode summary:

Famous people with direct links to the slave trade go on journeys around the globe to document their connections to it and examine how it shaped the modern world. In the first episode, actors David Harewood and Hugh Quarshie explore opposite sides of the Atlantic slave trade, which saw an estimated 12 million Africans transported across the ocean and sold into a life of slavery.

About 1000 Years of Slavery series:

Slavery made the modern world. It transformed the economies of the West and the demography of the globe. It was one of the biggest movements of peo...Show more >