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Season 1
6.8/1071 votesLoading...Cultures Left Behind
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/2020
Episode 1 launches the epic story of the transatlantic slave trade. Divers from Diving With a Purpose go in search of sunken slave ships. Hollywood icon Samuel L. Jackson goes on a personal journey to meet the tribe of his ancestors for the first time.
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6.8/1061 votesLoading...Rationalization
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/2020
Samuel L. Jackson recruits two award-winning journalists to go on a mission to understand the process that led Europeans to see slavery as profitable, rational and justified. Diving With a Purpose divers locate the earliest slave wreck ever found.
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6.8/1053 votesLoading...Follow the Money
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/2020
Shot on location in Suriname, Brazil, Portugal and the UK, this episode investigates the economics of the slave trade, while searching for a sunken slave ship that represents the single greatest loss of life during the entire slave trade.
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6.5/1043 votesLoading...New World Cultures
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/2020
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.
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6.6/1041 votesLoading...Resistance
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/2020
This episode investigates African resistance to slavery in Africa and the “Underground Railroad.” The Diving With a Purpose divers embark on an investigation to positively identify a preserved wreck that ferried African Americans to freedom.
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6.6/1037 votesLoading...Abolition
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/2020
The final episode explores the politics that brought the enslavement of Africans in the West to an end. Diving with a Purpose 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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