Season 1 poster

Season 1

(2018)

Overview

This is the story of a world whose territories and own frontiers were built by the slave trade. A world where violence, subjugation and profit imposed their routes. The history of slavery did not begin in the cotton fields. It is a much older tragedy, that has been going on since the dawn of humanity. From the VIIth century on, and for over 1,200 years, Africa was the epicenter of a gigantic traffic of human beings traversing the entire globe. Nubian, Fulani, Mandinka, Songhai, Susu, Akan, Yoru…

Cast

Episodes

476-1375: Beyond the Desert poster

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April 29, 2018

In 476 AD, Rome fell under the pressure of barbarian invasions. On the ruins of the Roman Empire, the Arabs founded an …

1375-1620: For All the Gold in the World poster

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April 29, 2018

At the end of the Middle Ages, Europe opened up to the world and discovered that it was at the margins of the main area…

1620 -1789: From sugar to rebellion poster

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April 29, 2018

XVIIth century. The Atlantic has become the battlefield of the sugar war. French, English, Dutch and Spaniards fought f…

1789-1888: Slavery's new frontiers poster

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April 29, 2018

In London, Paris and Washington, the abolitionist movement was gathering momentum. After the slave rebellion in Santo D…