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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.
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S1, EP6 "Abolition"
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.
S1, EP5 "Resistance"
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.
S1, EP4 "New World Cultures"
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.
S1, EP3 "Follow the Money"
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.
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