''Enslaved'' is a

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

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 Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South. Sl ...

, including the efforts of American actor

Samuel L. Jackson Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and producer. One of the most widely recognized actors of his generation, the films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed over $27 billion worldwide, making him ...

to reconnect with his African heritage through

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, diving projects to locate and recover shipwrecks 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 on economics, politics and culture through to the present day. Also featuring '' Guardian'' journalist

Afua Hirsch Afua Hirsch (born 1981) is a British writer and broadcaster. She has worked as a journalist for '' The Guardian'' newspaper, and was the Social Affairs and Education Editor for Sky News from 2014 until 2017. Early life Afua Hirsch was born in ...

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

Simcha Jacobovici Simcha Jacobovici (; born April 4, 1953) is an Israeli-Canadian journalist and documentary film maker. Biography Simcha Jacobovici's parents were Holocaust survivors from Iași, Romania. He was born April 4, 1953, in Petah Tikva, Israel. In 19 ...

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 BBC Two in the United Kingdom, CBC Television in Canada and

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

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. ''Enslaved'' won the

Canadian Screen Award The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) 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 ...

for Best History Program or Series at the

9th Canadian Screen Awards The 9th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held in the week of May 17 to 20, 2021, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2020.Barry Hertz, "How one Canadian arts institution is rebuilding amid the p ...

in 2021.

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* 2020 British television series debuts 2020 Canadian television series debuts 2020s British documentary television series 2020s Canadian documentary television series Canadian Screen Award-winning television shows CBC Television original programming Television shows about American slavery {{Canada-documentary-tv-prog-stub