Drain the Oceans
Season 3 Episode 10 - America's Last Slave Ship
Maritime archaeologists and historians go in search of the crucial component in the Atlantic Slave Trade: the slave ship. An armoured, floating fortress operating for over four centuries, capturing and transporting over 12 million Africans, who were sold and forced to work in brutal conditions in the New World. By draining we reveal the cruel technology on-board, gain an insight into the horrific conditions and ID a wreck in Alabama that could be the last ever slave ship to bring Africans to American soil.
Episodes in Season 3
The Atomic Ghost Fleet
47 min
The Viking Seas
47 min
Egypt's Sunken City
47 min
The Battle of Britain
47 min
Pirate Ships of the Caribbean
47 min
The American Revolution
47 min
Raiders of the Civil War
47 min
The Last Wrecks of WWII
47 min
Chicago
47 min
America's Last Slave Ship
47 min