Over 12 million Africans were kidnapped and sold into slavery with 10 percent dying en route.The series tracks the efforts of Diving with a Purpose (DWP), as they search for and locate six slave ships that went down with their human cargo. It’s a story of brutality and inhumanity, but also of resistance, accomplishment and hope.
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Cultures Left Behind - S1 E1
Samuel L Jackson traces his ancestry to Gabon, visiting the coastal area in Loango National Park and divers from Diving With a Purpose (DWP) search for a slave ship that went down off the Florida coast.
- Sunday April 12, 2026 8:00 pm ET on KET2
- Sunday April 12, 2026 7:00 pm CT on KET2
- Tuesday April 14, 2026 2:00 am ET on KET2
- Tuesday April 14, 2026 1:00 am CT on KET2
Rationalization - S1 E2
Samuel L. Jackson recruits two notable journalists to investigate the process that led Europeans to view slavery as not only profitable but justified; in the English Channel, DWP divers locate the earliest slave wreck ever found.
- Sunday April 12, 2026 9:00 pm ET on KET2
- Sunday April 12, 2026 8:00 pm CT on KET2
- Tuesday April 14, 2026 3:00 am ET on KET2
- Tuesday April 14, 2026 2:00 am CT on KET2
Follow the Money - S1 E3
The team investigates the economics of slave trade and searches for a sunken slave ship that represents the single greatest loss of life during this time in history.
- Sunday April 19, 2026 8:00 pm ET on KET2
- Sunday April 19, 2026 7:00 pm CT on KET2
- Tuesday April 21, 2026 2:00 am ET on KET2
- Tuesday April 21, 2026 1:00 am CT on KET2
New World Cultures - S1 E4
Samuel L. Jackson visits Africatown, Alabama, the only African town established in America; the divers help youths in Costa Rica discover their African heritage by diving and identifying a sunken slave ship off their coast.
- Sunday April 19, 2026 9:00 pm ET on KET2
- Sunday April 19, 2026 8:00 pm CT on KET2
- Tuesday April 21, 2026 3:00 am ET on KET2
- Tuesday April 21, 2026 2:00 am CT on KET2
Resistance - S1 E5
Exploring 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.
- Sunday April 26, 2026 8:00 pm ET on KET2
- Sunday April 26, 2026 7:00 pm CT on KET2
- Tuesday April 28, 2026 2:00 am ET on KET2
- Tuesday April 28, 2026 1:00 am CT on KET2
Abolition - S1 E6
Samuel L. Jackson explores the politics that brought the enslavement of Africans in the West to an end; the divers search for a ship that re-enslaved freed Africans from St. Lucia and illegally trafficked them to England.
- Sunday April 26, 2026 9:00 pm ET on KET2
- Sunday April 26, 2026 8:00 pm CT on KET2
- Tuesday April 28, 2026 3:00 am ET on KET2
- Tuesday April 28, 2026 2:00 am CT on KET2
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