The Best Slavery & Abolition Documentaries

History - 12 free documentaries about slavery & abolition.

Start with These Divers Search For Slave Shipwrecks and Discover Their Ancestors (18 min, National Geographic), then The History Of The Gullah: From Africa To America (54 min, Timeline). All 12 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on slavery & abolition is Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup.

• These Divers Search For Slave Shipwrecks and Discover Their Ancestors (18 min, National Geographic)
• The History Of The Gullah: From Africa To America | Circle Unbroken (54 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• The Last Years of the Atlantic Slave Trade (60 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Are We Enslaved to One Side of the Brain? - The Sickness of Modern Man | Iain McGilchrist (23 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Inside Saudi Arabia: Life between Tyranny, Slavery and Modernity (57 min, ENDEVR)
• The Cartels Running Up Transatlantic Airfares (22 min, Wendover Productions)
• Chocolate’s Hidden Ingredient: Child Slavery (81 min, ENDEVR)
• Human traffickers conducting a lucrative business in Mauritania (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Slavery: A Global Investigation (78 min, Real Stories)
• How Singapore Built Its Riches With These Crops: Gambier, Nutmeg, Rubber | Lost Plantations (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Why slavery still exists (Sahara 1/3) (50 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Kathleen Rushton: Why is modern day slavery rampant in the world today and even here in New Zealand? (57 min, Our Planet)

Top-Rated Books About Slavery & Abolition

1. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
2. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
3. The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist - View on Amazon
4. Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild - View on Amazon