Samuel L. Jackson has long said that when he was younger he wanted to be the Black Jacques Cousteau. "That’s [Black] with a Q," he tells The Hollywood Reporter in a recent phone call.
Now he’s paired his passion for ocean discovery with an interest in telling stories about one of the most dreadful chapters in the history of humanity: the centuries-long trans-Atlantic slave trade.
In the new Epix docuseries Enslaved, the actor — also an executive producer on the show along with his wife LaTanya Richardson Jackson — appears in each of the six episodes, bringing viewers along on a journey that focuses on 400 years of human trafficking through a unique lens of looking at sunken slave ships.
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