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Slavery Routes

2018 1 season 4 eps 12

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45 min

S1 · E1 · Apr 29, 2018

476-1375: Beyond the Desert Episode 1

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.

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45 min

S1 · E2 · Apr 29, 2018

1375-1620: For All the Gold in the World Episode 2

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…

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45 min

S1 · E3 · Apr 29, 2018

1620 -1789: From sugar to rebellion Episode 3

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.

7.9 · You

45 min

S1 · E4 · Apr 29, 2018

1789-1888: Slavery's new frontiers Episode 4

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.

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4 episodes in Season 1

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L’histoire de l’esclavage n’a pas commencé dans les champs de coton. C’est une tragédie beaucoup plus ancienne qui se joue depuis l’aube de l’humanité. Pour la première fois, cette série retrace l’histoire des traites négrières du VIIe au XIXe siècle. Récit d’un monde où la traite des esclaves a dessiné ses territoires et ses propres frontières. Un monde où la violence, la domination et le profit ont imposé leurs routes.

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Daniel Cattier Director · Fanny Glissant Director · Juan Gélas Director

Director

Daniel Cattier

Director

Fanny Glissant

Director

Juan Gélas

Total runtime 3h 28m · Episode length 52 min · Type Documentary

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Premiered

April 29, 2018

Status

Ended

Network

ARTE

Country

France

Type

Documentary

Episode length

52 min

Total runtime

3h 28m

Original language

French

Production

C

CPB Films

Production

A

ARTE France Cinéma

Production

K

Kwassa Films

Production

L

LX Filmes

Production

R

RTBF

Production

I

Inrap

Production

R

RTP

Production

France

Produced in

Languages

Original title

Les routes de l'esclavage

Spoken on screen

French · German

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