1000 Years of Slavery Season 1 Episode 3 - A Global Trade

Airdate: 2021-Nov-02

Episode summary:

Shannon LaNier visits Monticello in Virginia and makes a discovery about the nature of his ancestor Sally Hemings' relationship with Thomas Jefferson, and how he tried to hide the fact he owned slaves while living in France. Trisha Goddard investigates how slaves have been traded across the Indian Ocean for millennia the incredible journey of an 18th-century classical musician who was enslaved twice before finding freedom is also featured.

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 >