Slavery Routes (2018)

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Runtime: 52m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: FR

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Director: Fanny Glissant, Juan Gélas
Status: Ended
First aired: Apr 29, 2018
Network: ARTE
Studio: CPB Films, ARTE France Cinéma

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3 hrs

4 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Runtime: 52m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: FR

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Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in Germany, France, Brazil.

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E1 · Airs Apr 29, 2018 · 52m
476-1375: Beyond the Desert
In 476 AD, Rome fell under the pressure of barbarian invasions. On the ruins of the Roman Empire, the Arabs founded an immense empire that stretched from the banks of the Indus to the South of the Sahara. Between Africa and the Middle East, a huge slave trade network was forged, that would last for centuries. At the heart of this continental network, two major merchant cities stood out. In the North, at the crossroads of the Arabian Peninsula and Africa, Cairo, the most important Muslim city and the main commercial hub of Africa. In the South, Timbuktu, the stronghold of the great West African empires, and point of departure of the trans-Saharan caravans. In this epic and documented story, the first episode of Slavery Routes tells 700 years of history and reveals how the sub-Saharan populations have become, over centuries, the main “raw material” of the greatest deportation in history.
E2 · Airs Apr 29, 2018 · 52m
1375-1620: For All the Gold in the World
At the end of the Middle Ages, Europe opened up to the world and discovered that it was at the margins of the main area wealth generation on the planet: Africa. The Portuguese Conquistadores were the first to set out to conquer Africa. They went to get gold, and came back with hundreds of thousands of captives to sell in Europe. Between the African coasts, Brazil and their trading posts, the Portuguese set up the first colonies entirely populated by slaves. Off the coast of Gabon, the island of São Tomé became the testing ground for the most profitable exploitation system ever to exist: the sugar plantation…
E3 · Airs Apr 29, 2018 · 52m
1620 -1789: From sugar to rebellion
XVIIth century. The Atlantic has become the battlefield of the sugar war. French, English, Dutch and Spaniards fought for the Caribbean to cultivate sugar cane. To satisfy their dreams of fortune, the European Kingdoms opened new slavery routes between Africa and the islands of the New World. With the complicity of banks and insurance companies, they industrialized their methods and brought the number of deportations to unprecedented levels. Trapped, nearly 7 million African were caught up in a gigantic hurricane of violence.
E4 · Airs Apr 29, 2018 · 52m
1789-1888: Slavery's new frontiers
In London, Paris and Washington, the abolitionist movement was gathering momentum. After the slave rebellion in Santo Domingo, and facing the public opinion’s growing outrage, the major European powers abolished the trans-Atlantic trade in 1807. Yet Europe, in the midst of the industrial revolution, could not do without the slave workforce. To satisfy its needs in raw materials, it pushed further the frontiers of slavery and turned a blind eye on the new forms of human exploitation in Brazil, the United States and Africa. At a time when legal trade was finally prohibited, the deportation of African captives would explode, and become more important than ever. Within 50 years, nearly 2.5 million were deported.

Details

Director: Fanny Glissant, Juan Gélas
Status: Ended
First aired: Apr 29, 2018
Network: ARTE
Studio: CPB Films, ARTE France Cinéma

Time to finish

3 hrs

4 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

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