1000 Years A Slave
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50:001000 Years A Slave
The murder of George Floyd shook the world and sparked protests worldwide.
1:00:00Shannon LaNier looks into his ancestor's relationship with Thomas Jefferson.
1:05:00In Jamaica, British actor Ray Fearon, who is descended from Maroons – enslaved Africans who escaped and resisted their captors – reads the diaries of planter Thomas Thistlewood, who abused enslaved Africans who worked under him. Sam Pieh, the great, great grandson of the man who led the revolt on board the slave ship La Am...
1:05:00On the charge sheet of human history, few events have created such an indelible stain as slavery. The idea that one human is treated as the property of another is deeply at odds with today’s world. Yet, until the lives of our great-grandparents, slavery drove the wealth of countries that today see themselves at the forefro...