We examine the historical roots of today's social problems by exploring the history of slavery in America. From the nation's early days as an English settlement to the start of the Civil War, we focuses on a different chapters in the struggle to define freedom. Combining first-person narratives, interviews with historians and descendants, music and scholarship. With special features on Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion, a watershed event in America’s long and troubled history of slavery and racial conflict and NYC’s African Burial Grounds revealing the never before told story of African-Americans in NYC from 1613 to 1827.