Samuel L Jackson and a team of journalists and divers explore 400 years of slavery. What happened to the 12 million ensla...
Henry Louis Gates Jr looks at the discoveries that point to Africa as the genetic home of all currently living humanity.
The development of the triangular trade is described from its ancient origins, through the European involvement in the 16th and 17...
Samuel L Jackson examines how, for over 400 years, the transatlantic slave trade became the greatest wealth-generating m...
The schools history series reconstructs the day-to-day experience of slavery for Betty Newton, a field hand on a Carib...
In the second part of his four-part series, historian David Olusoga explores the business of slavery and remembers the bl...
David Olusoga traces the bitter propaganda war waged between the pro-slavery lobby and the abolitionists.
Henry Louis Gates travels to the shores of the Sahara Desert to see the transformation of north and west Africa.
In part three of this groundbreaking series, historian David Olusoga explores the Victorian moral crusade against s...
Samuel L Jackson and the team travel through the US to tell the stories of those who resisted slavery, often making the danger...
An overview of the methods used by the abolitionists, such as the famous poster of the slave ship 'Brookes'. The case of...
This episode looks at the powerful, cosmopolitan cities that dotted Africa at the time when Europe was in its Middle Ages.
In February 1991, Prime Minister John Major survived an IRA mortar attack. But this wasn't the only message he received from the ...
Jeremy Paxman travels from Jamaica, where sugar made plantation owners rich on the backs of slaves, to Calcutta.
Samuel L Jackson and the team examine the events that ended the slave trade and piece together the heritage and identity taken...
Historian David Olusoga concludes his series with the three African kings who stood up to empire, an irresistible ...
The final episode reviews the 19th century, when a fierce competition for resources and trade led to conflicts.
David Olusoga visits Hadrian's Wall and discusses the Roman history of black soldiers.
David Olusoga investigates the Bechuanaland Chiefs.
Davis Olusoga investigates the Bill Richmond black boxer who took Georgian Britain by storm.
Angellica Bell introduces the slave trade and the importance of Bristol in its history.
David Olusoga visits Bunce Island, where the first slave fortress was built in the 17th century.
David Olusoga discusses racial violence in Liverpool.
Caroline and July compete for Robert's attention. Robert announces that he's marrying Caroline, but on the wedding night goes to July's bed and the...
Angry and frustrated by the workers' refusal to work to his orders, Robert takes violent revenge, hoping to scare them into working, to the shock a...
David Olusoga investigates the first English traders in West Africa.
David Olusoga discusses the first slave society in Barbados.
David Olusoga discusses the life and work of Frederick Douglas.
David Olusoga investigates the passenger list to Freetown in Africa.
David Olusoga discusses Granville Sharpe and Jonathan Strong's roles in the abolition of slavery.
David Olusoga views the implements of torture that slave owners used to enforce the slave plantation system.
David Olusoga investigates the British independent slave owners.
David Olusoga discusses Catherine of Aragon's black servants.
David Olusoga explains how the American civil war caused a cotton famine in Lancashire.
David Olusoga discusses the cotton industry in Mississippi and how it fuelled Britain's industrial revolution.
David Olusoga discusses the legacy of the slave trade in Jamaica in the decades after abolition.
David Olusoga talks to Neil Kenlock about his photographs of the exp...
Actress Lenora Crichlow sets off to South Africa to discover the story of how Nelson Mandela brought peace to his country and what he mea...
David Olusoga investigates American Independence and the revolution of the African slaves.
Simon Schama traces the steps of the empire-makers, asking how a trading enterprise based on the idea of libert...
The well-known chef heads to the West Indies and discovers his Caribbean history is not quite what he expected.
Angellica Bell explains what happened to the slaves once they arrived in the Caribbean.
David Olusoga discusses the remarkable life of Sara Forbes Bonetta.
Angellica Bell describes how people were captured and treated in Senegal as they entered into a life of salvery.
David Olusoga discusses the slave codes that stripped black people of all their rights.
David Olusoga explains how slaves were passed down through families in inheritance.
David Olusoga discusses the arguments used by slave owners when fighting for compensation.
David Olusoga introduces the slave owner compensation records.
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