


1000 Years a Slave
Open Wounds
Season 1 Episode 1 of 4
Famous people with direct links to the slave trade go on journeys around the globe to document their connections to it and examine how it shaped the modern world. In the first episode, actors David Harewood and Hugh Quarshie explore opposite sides of the Atlantic slave trade, which saw an estimated 12 million Africans transported across the ocean and sold into a life of slavery
1000 Years a Slave airs on 5 at 3:00 AM, Sunday 9 November. (Subtitles, repeat.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
History
Marion Milne
Series Producer
Dominic Ozanne
Series Producer
Lucy Hershon
Producer
