he first episode talks about Atlantic slave trade 1500-1800 with a focus on Sierra Leone. The Temme people are said to have sold the Loko people and believed that this was not a move against their own. It also talks about Jamestown VA, and how Antony Johnson preciously know as Antonio the Negro. Despite skin color he found opportunity and earned his way to freedom, his master gave him land. Mr. Johnson owned 250 acres of tobacco and also had white indentured slave and a black slave. Due to European invention of the idea that slavery was based solely on skin color, this marked Johnson blackness marked him as an outsider court ruled that he was an “alien”. As a result his land was seized, the acquisition of slaves was central to the acquisition of wealth.
Episode 2 covers the second middle passage and the Nat Turner rebellion. The episode talks about how a group of slaves came together to plot a revolt, armed with homemade swords their plans were postponed due to a severe storm, as a result two slaves feared the consequences and informed their masters, As a result the group of slaves involved in the rebellion were killed.

The 3rd episode deals with the black man who fought in the civil war, what the emancipation proclamation didn’t do and the short lived dream. The episode also talks about how they would kill blacks in public in order to warn them about staying in their place. Violence escalated in 1876 and a new reign of white supremacy took over in the southern territories.

Episode 4 talks about Thomas Moss who ran a successful business, but because his competitor was a white man who he was putting out of business, because of that Thomas Moss suffered a mob attack and hauled to jail for being better that the competitor in business. Later on a lynch mob took him out of jail and killed Thomas Moss.
The last few episodes cover the Jim Crow period and the civil