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- Launching the epic story of the transatlantic slave trade, as told from the ocean floor, divers from Diving With A Purpose go in search of sunken slave ships, while Hollywood icon Samuel L. Jackson goes to meet the tribe of his ancestors.
- Samuel L. Jackson recruits two notable journalists to go on a mission to understand the process that led Europeans to see slavery as not only profitable, but justified. In the English Channel, DWP divers locate the earliest slave wreck ever found.
- Shot on location in Suriname, Brazil, Portugal and the UK, the team investigate 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.
- Samuel L. Jackson visits 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.
- Explore 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.
- The finale explores 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.
- 2011–TV Episode