Samuel L Jackson will be hosting a new show that highlights the known and unknown insidious acts during slavery.
The underwater water series is called “Enslaved,” and Jackson has signed on as its host. The Canadian docu-series will educate viewers on slavery by exploring the “horrors of slavery” as revealed through underwater archaeology,” Deadline reports.
It will be launched as a six-part series that highlights research from the Middle Passage, which is the area slave traders used to transport African slaves across the Atlantic Ocean to America. With his license as a diver, Jackson will explore the sunken slave ships underwater. “For me, this is much more than a TV series” Jackson, whose ancestors came from Gabon in West Africa, said. “For me, Enslaved is an attempt to give a voice to the millions whose voices were silenced.”
The series will be produced under British TV Company Fremantle. Jackson and his wife LaTanya will serve as executive producers. “Fremantle has been working with the best international producers to curate the highest quality factual programming, and Enslaved is a remarkable addition to our non-scripted slate,” Jens Richter, CEO of Fremantle’s international division, said. “Hosted by the inimitable Samuel L. Jackson, this transformative, moving series exposes the shocking realities of slavery, retracing the traumatic journey they endured which began 400 years ago.”
A premiere date has yet to be announced.
