Samuel L. Jackson is hosting a new six-episode series that delves back into what is arguably the most shameful period in American history.
The EPIX channel’s “Enslaved” (airing in Canada on CBC) finds Jackson tracing his ancestral journey from the African nation of Gabon to America for the new series, which looks at 400 years of human trafficking for profit.
Joining the “Avengers” star are British author/broadcaster Afua Hirsch and Canadian investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici, with each episode tracking three individual story lines: searching for a sunken slave ship, Jackson’s personal journey of discovery (which includes his induction into a local Benga tribe in Gabon) and a historical look at what took place.
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