''Enslaved'' is a

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television documentary series, which premiered in 2020. The series explores various aspects of the history of

slavery in the United States The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of List of ethnic groups of Africa, Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865 ...

, including the efforts of American actor Samuel L. Jackson to reconnect with his African heritage through

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, diving projects to locate and recover

shipwreck A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. It results from the event of ''shipwrecking'', which may be intentional or unintentional. There were approximately thre ...

s in which at least two million African people captured by slave traders died before ever reaching North America, and explorations of the impact of the

Atlantic slave trade The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of Slavery in Africa, enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Pass ...

on economics, politics and culture through to the present day. Also featuring ''

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'' journalist

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as co-presenter with Jackson, the series was created by

Simcha Jacobovici Simcha Jacobovici (; ; born April 4, 1953) is a Canadian–Israeli journalist and documentary filmmaker. While several scholars consider him to be a pseudo-archeologist and pseudo-historian, the ''New York Times'' dubbed him a modern-day “I ...

and Yaron Niski, directed by Jacobovici and produced by Ric Esther Bienstock, Sarah Sapper and Felix Golubev. The series was broadcast in fall 2020 on

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in the United Kingdom,

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in Canada and

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in the United States. In spring 2021, the series was broadcast on RTE 2 in the

Republic of Ireland Ireland ( ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of about 5.4 million. ...

. ''Enslaved'' won the

Canadian Screen Award The Canadian Screen Awards () are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media ( web series) productions. Given annually by the Academy ...

for Best History Program or Series at the

9th Canadian Screen Awards The 9th Canadian Screen Awards were presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television from 17–20 May 2021 to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2020. The presentations were held as a seri ...

in 2021.

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