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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:16,886 --> 00:00:19,106 ♪ 2 00:00:19,236 --> 00:00:21,456 [SAM] It wasn't just people who were brought from Africa 3 00:00:21,586 --> 00:00:24,154 during the transatlantic slave trade, 4 00:00:24,285 --> 00:00:25,895 it was knowledge. 5 00:00:26,026 --> 00:00:29,333 Knowledge that helped give birth to the world we live in 6 00:00:29,464 --> 00:00:31,770 without most of us knowing anything about it. 7 00:00:31,901 --> 00:00:34,295 ♪ 8 00:00:34,425 --> 00:00:36,427 We brought our ways with us. 9 00:00:36,558 --> 00:00:38,908 It's not in the history books. 10 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:41,215 We're going to find it in the bottom of the ocean. 11 00:00:41,345 --> 00:00:43,304 [KRAMER] They have an opportunity 12 00:00:43,434 --> 00:00:46,350 to rediscover their ties to the past, 13 00:00:46,481 --> 00:00:48,241 and their connection to the enslaved Africans 14 00:00:48,352 --> 00:00:49,352 who were here. 15 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:50,441 [wave crashing] 16 00:00:50,572 --> 00:00:51,921 Woo! 17 00:00:52,052 --> 00:00:55,272 [SIMCHA] You look at this, and it's beautiful, 18 00:00:55,403 --> 00:00:56,621 but it's also a mathematical. 19 00:00:56,752 --> 00:00:57,927 [RON] Exactly. 20 00:00:58,058 --> 00:01:01,322 [DORRICK] There were 2,500 enslaved Africans 21 00:01:01,452 --> 00:01:04,586 that ran away to join the pirates. 22 00:01:04,716 --> 00:01:06,414 [shouting and grunting] 23 00:01:06,544 --> 00:01:08,590 [AFUA] Here was a world where they had an equal vote 24 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:10,742 and an equal say alongside their white counterparts. 25 00:01:10,766 --> 00:01:14,465 ♪ 26 00:01:14,596 --> 00:01:17,381 Your life depends on your skills, 27 00:01:17,512 --> 00:01:21,342 your equipment and your attitude. 28 00:01:21,472 --> 00:01:22,256 Why are you the first Black person I ever seen 29 00:01:22,386 --> 00:01:23,735 play a banjo? 30 00:01:23,866 --> 00:01:25,266 [RHIANNON] It was known by everybody 31 00:01:25,389 --> 00:01:26,912 as a Black instrument. 32 00:01:27,043 --> 00:01:29,263 All those things have been considered for so many years 33 00:01:29,393 --> 00:01:31,395 to be slave food, 34 00:01:31,526 --> 00:01:33,789 right now, everyone wants to celebrate it. 35 00:01:33,919 --> 00:01:36,922 The memories and talents of the enslaved Africans 36 00:01:37,053 --> 00:01:38,881 who arrived here 37 00:01:39,011 --> 00:01:41,405 helped to create the culture of the new world 38 00:01:41,536 --> 00:01:44,713 in a way we have only just begun to understand. 39 00:01:44,843 --> 00:01:48,847 ♪ 40 00:01:48,978 --> 00:01:52,460 [chain scraping] 41 00:01:52,590 --> 00:02:00,590 ♪ 42 00:02:06,082 --> 00:02:08,519 This community was started by the Africans 43 00:02:08,650 --> 00:02:10,913 who were on the last illegal slave ship 44 00:02:11,043 --> 00:02:13,872 to arrive in America, "The Clotilde." 45 00:02:14,003 --> 00:02:16,571 ♪ 46 00:02:16,701 --> 00:02:18,616 Five years after they were brought here, 47 00:02:18,747 --> 00:02:21,532 the end of the Civil War set them free 48 00:02:21,663 --> 00:02:23,882 and they started the only African-run town in America. 49 00:02:24,013 --> 00:02:26,494 ♪ 50 00:02:26,624 --> 00:02:28,974 Grammy award-winning musician, Rhiannon Giddens and I 51 00:02:29,105 --> 00:02:30,889 are here with Joe'l Billingsley 52 00:02:31,020 --> 00:02:32,540 who brought us here to see the monument 53 00:02:32,630 --> 00:02:36,112 honoring her great-great- grandfather, Kazoola, 54 00:02:36,243 --> 00:02:38,984 one of the founders of Africatown. 55 00:02:39,115 --> 00:02:41,857 Kazoola happens to be the one we know the most about. 56 00:02:41,987 --> 00:02:43,380 Right. 57 00:02:43,511 --> 00:02:46,209 Because he lived longer and he shared his story 58 00:02:46,340 --> 00:02:48,777 in a way that a lot of us are learning about it now. 59 00:02:48,907 --> 00:02:49,952 Wow. 60 00:02:50,082 --> 00:02:52,737 My grandmother was born in 18 something. 61 00:02:52,868 --> 00:02:55,784 So her mother was a slave. 62 00:02:55,914 --> 00:03:00,005 So she could talk to me about what that was. 63 00:03:00,136 --> 00:03:03,183 That forms us in interesting kinds of ways. 64 00:03:03,313 --> 00:03:05,010 I mean, people always talk about slavery 65 00:03:05,141 --> 00:03:05,968 like it's ancient history. 66 00:03:06,098 --> 00:03:07,622 - Yeah. - And it's not. 67 00:03:07,752 --> 00:03:09,798 - Mm-mm - And lasted a long time. 68 00:03:09,928 --> 00:03:10,929 That. Yeah. 69 00:03:11,060 --> 00:03:12,104 ♪ 70 00:03:12,235 --> 00:03:14,368 In Africatown, they grew their own food. 71 00:03:14,498 --> 00:03:16,805 They established their own community 72 00:03:16,935 --> 00:03:18,435 based on what they did in their homeland, 73 00:03:18,459 --> 00:03:20,809 based on their traditions. 74 00:03:20,939 --> 00:03:23,203 And so as you sort of move through the decades, 75 00:03:23,333 --> 00:03:25,205 you'll see that, that community at one time, 76 00:03:25,335 --> 00:03:27,052 when it was thriving, had everything you needed. 77 00:03:27,076 --> 00:03:29,557 ♪ 78 00:03:29,687 --> 00:03:31,847 Didn't have to go anywhere, to go to the grocery store, 79 00:03:31,907 --> 00:03:33,865 see a doctor to be educated 80 00:03:33,996 --> 00:03:36,041 or even have some entertainment. 81 00:03:36,172 --> 00:03:37,608 [children shouting] 82 00:03:37,739 --> 00:03:41,003 Everything you needed to live 83 00:03:41,133 --> 00:03:43,875 was right here in the community. 84 00:03:44,006 --> 00:03:47,009 And so when you talk to people, they have so much pride 85 00:03:47,139 --> 00:03:49,229 in what it used to be. 86 00:03:49,359 --> 00:03:52,971 One time it was 12,000 people, now it's 2000. 87 00:03:53,102 --> 00:03:57,976 ♪ 88 00:03:58,107 --> 00:03:59,978 Now we're trying to revive Africatown. 89 00:04:00,109 --> 00:04:03,460 ♪ 90 00:04:03,591 --> 00:04:05,201 We have a place called Kazoola, 91 00:04:05,332 --> 00:04:07,986 named after my great-great- great-grandfather. 92 00:04:08,117 --> 00:04:16,117 ♪ 93 00:04:20,172 --> 00:04:22,871 [applause] 94 00:04:23,001 --> 00:04:24,438 So why are you the first Black 95 00:04:24,568 --> 00:04:26,048 person I ever seen play a banjo? 96 00:04:26,178 --> 00:04:27,895 - That's the question. - That is the question. 97 00:04:27,919 --> 00:04:29,723 Because it was like, I grew up seeing white people 98 00:04:29,747 --> 00:04:31,706 play the banjo and kind of going, 99 00:04:31,836 --> 00:04:35,231 oh, that's cool, but it's not part of my culture. 100 00:04:35,362 --> 00:04:37,799 And then I found there are some recordings 101 00:04:37,929 --> 00:04:39,670 of the Black players of this music. 102 00:04:39,801 --> 00:04:41,933 And then as I started to dig 103 00:04:42,064 --> 00:04:44,762 and, like, this used to be a huge tradition. 104 00:04:44,893 --> 00:04:46,938 It was an enormous tradition all across, 105 00:04:47,069 --> 00:04:49,201 not just the south, but all across the country. 106 00:04:49,332 --> 00:04:53,118 So I know the banjo as this, metal strings, 107 00:04:53,249 --> 00:04:55,991 metallic instrument often played bluegrass style. 108 00:04:56,121 --> 00:04:58,863 And then I learned that the banjo 109 00:04:58,994 --> 00:05:01,126 was an African American instrument. 110 00:05:01,257 --> 00:05:03,912 So it looked more like this. 111 00:05:04,042 --> 00:05:06,523 It was known by everybody as a Black instrument. 112 00:05:06,654 --> 00:05:08,873 The emblem of being Black was the banjo. 113 00:05:09,004 --> 00:05:13,791 ♪ 114 00:05:13,922 --> 00:05:17,099 Then you have a change in the 1820s, and 30s, 115 00:05:17,229 --> 00:05:20,145 and that's when white folk started going. 116 00:05:20,276 --> 00:05:22,974 "That's really cool. I would like to play that." 117 00:05:23,105 --> 00:05:26,761 So you have white entertainers picking up the banjo. 118 00:05:26,891 --> 00:05:28,806 The reason why we don't talk about this shift 119 00:05:28,937 --> 00:05:30,765 is because the white folks playing this banjo 120 00:05:30,895 --> 00:05:32,680 would have been doing it in blackface. 121 00:05:32,810 --> 00:05:35,813 This entire industry becomes the blackface minstrel show, 122 00:05:35,944 --> 00:05:37,554 is the most popular form of entertainment 123 00:05:37,685 --> 00:05:39,991 for, like, over 60 years. 124 00:05:40,122 --> 00:05:42,777 Are you saying that what we know as bluegrass today 125 00:05:42,907 --> 00:05:46,041 actually began with African Americans? 126 00:05:46,171 --> 00:05:47,999 - 100% - Wow. 127 00:05:48,130 --> 00:05:49,410 That's exactly what we're saying. 128 00:05:49,523 --> 00:05:50,785 Wow. 129 00:05:50,915 --> 00:05:52,526 So are you saying the original do-si-do 130 00:05:52,656 --> 00:05:54,179 was an African American thing? 131 00:05:54,310 --> 00:05:57,574 So, way back when you have nothing but dances 132 00:05:57,705 --> 00:05:59,968 as entertainment, and you have plantations, 133 00:06:00,098 --> 00:06:02,536 the musicians for these balls are African American. 134 00:06:02,666 --> 00:06:04,146 Almost always. 135 00:06:04,276 --> 00:06:06,714 And so they are forced to learn European dances, 136 00:06:06,844 --> 00:06:08,629 European music, 137 00:06:08,759 --> 00:06:12,023 and then they are themselves mixing it. 138 00:06:12,154 --> 00:06:14,330 The thing that sets apart American square dancing, 139 00:06:14,461 --> 00:06:17,246 and country dances from Europe is the calling. 140 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:18,813 You don't have callers. 141 00:06:18,943 --> 00:06:20,343 And that's the thing that you think. 142 00:06:20,467 --> 00:06:22,140 ♪ Do-si-do, and round around, and round you go ♪ 143 00:06:22,164 --> 00:06:23,402 ♪ and grab your partner and up and down ♪ 144 00:06:23,426 --> 00:06:23,992 ♪ and swing that Sally girl around. ♪ 145 00:06:24,122 --> 00:06:25,689 That stuff. 146 00:06:25,820 --> 00:06:27,275 These are the innovations that make this music 147 00:06:27,299 --> 00:06:30,128 uniquely American are African American. 148 00:06:30,259 --> 00:06:38,259 ♪ 149 00:06:44,316 --> 00:06:47,276 ♪ I got a home in Beulah Land, outshine the sun ♪ 150 00:06:47,407 --> 00:06:49,583 ♪ I got a home in Beulah Land, 151 00:06:49,713 --> 00:06:51,280 ♪ outshine the sun 152 00:06:51,411 --> 00:06:54,588 ♪ I got a home in Beulah Land, outshine the sun ♪ 153 00:06:54,718 --> 00:06:56,807 ♪ way beyond the blue. 154 00:06:56,938 --> 00:06:58,156 Do it again now, come on! 155 00:06:58,287 --> 00:07:01,638 ♪ Nights in the valley, outshine the sun ♪ 156 00:07:01,769 --> 00:07:03,248 ♪ Nights in the valley, 157 00:07:03,379 --> 00:07:05,120 ♪ outshine the sun 158 00:07:05,250 --> 00:07:08,819 ♪ Nights in the valley, outshine the sun ♪ 159 00:07:08,950 --> 00:07:11,039 ♪ Way beyond the blue! 160 00:07:11,169 --> 00:07:11,996 Yeah! 161 00:07:12,127 --> 00:07:15,565 ♪ 162 00:07:15,696 --> 00:07:19,047 [cheers] [applause] 163 00:07:19,177 --> 00:07:23,225 ♪ 164 00:07:23,355 --> 00:07:25,836 We're here in Costa Rica, 165 00:07:25,967 --> 00:07:28,143 because of a local group of young divers 166 00:07:28,273 --> 00:07:30,798 believes that Africans contributed 167 00:07:30,928 --> 00:07:33,061 to their history and culture. 168 00:07:33,191 --> 00:07:36,151 This time we're not diving to investigate the deaths 169 00:07:36,281 --> 00:07:38,240 of those that never made it. 170 00:07:38,370 --> 00:07:40,764 This time, we're investigating one group 171 00:07:40,895 --> 00:07:42,026 that may have survived. 172 00:07:42,157 --> 00:07:47,292 ♪ 173 00:07:47,423 --> 00:07:50,295 Before we do any diving, Alannah, Kinga and I 174 00:07:50,426 --> 00:07:52,646 are traveling through Southern Costa Rica 175 00:07:52,776 --> 00:07:54,691 on our way to a remote village, 176 00:07:54,822 --> 00:07:56,214 several hours from the ocean 177 00:07:56,345 --> 00:07:58,782 into the rainforest of the Highlands. 178 00:07:58,913 --> 00:08:04,484 ♪ 179 00:08:04,614 --> 00:08:06,026 [KINGA] We're meeting members of an indigenous group 180 00:08:06,050 --> 00:08:07,965 called the Bribri. 181 00:08:08,096 --> 00:08:10,272 They're considered to be descendants of the Mayans, 182 00:08:10,402 --> 00:08:12,202 but there might be another side to that story. 183 00:08:12,274 --> 00:08:17,105 ♪ 184 00:08:17,235 --> 00:08:19,977 Their folklore tells of slave ships 185 00:08:20,108 --> 00:08:21,948 that were wrecked on the Costa Rican shoreline, 186 00:08:22,066 --> 00:08:23,328 and of Africans who came ashore 187 00:08:23,459 --> 00:08:25,940 to make a new life for themselves in the forests. 188 00:08:26,070 --> 00:08:28,116 ♪ 189 00:08:28,246 --> 00:08:29,683 But their African ancestry 190 00:08:29,813 --> 00:08:32,816 has always been considered to be a mere tribal legend. 191 00:08:32,947 --> 00:08:36,385 [people chatting] 192 00:08:36,516 --> 00:08:39,954 Maria Suarez Toro has invited us here to a Bribri feast 193 00:08:40,084 --> 00:08:41,453 to see if we can help this community 194 00:08:41,477 --> 00:08:44,132 reclaim its lost history. 195 00:08:44,262 --> 00:08:52,262 [speaking Spanish] 196 00:08:54,316 --> 00:09:02,316 [speaking Spanish] 197 00:09:09,287 --> 00:09:10,898 [speaking Spanish] 198 00:09:11,028 --> 00:09:13,727 I would like to thank everyone for inviting us here 199 00:09:13,857 --> 00:09:15,946 to hear your story. 200 00:09:16,077 --> 00:09:18,296 On some level I'm jealous 201 00:09:18,427 --> 00:09:22,213 because my question is always where do you come from? 202 00:09:22,344 --> 00:09:25,173 And the answer to that for me is always, 203 00:09:25,303 --> 00:09:26,653 I don't know. 204 00:09:26,783 --> 00:09:31,788 I don't have a connection to my home or my people 205 00:09:31,919 --> 00:09:34,748 so to be able to assist 206 00:09:34,878 --> 00:09:37,359 in answering those questions 207 00:09:37,489 --> 00:09:40,841 is a connection for me. 208 00:09:40,971 --> 00:09:47,151 [applause] 209 00:09:47,282 --> 00:09:50,241 I want to hear the local story. 210 00:09:50,372 --> 00:09:52,069 What do locals say about what happened 211 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:53,200 or those shipwrecks? 212 00:10:13,308 --> 00:10:15,136 I can't really imagine. 213 00:10:15,266 --> 00:10:17,486 You've just wrecked up in the middle of nowhere. 214 00:10:17,617 --> 00:10:19,227 You have no idea where you are. 215 00:10:19,357 --> 00:10:21,185 You look to your left, and it's just ocean. 216 00:10:21,316 --> 00:10:24,101 And then you look to your right, and you see dark forest. 217 00:10:24,232 --> 00:10:26,016 ♪ 218 00:10:26,147 --> 00:10:27,278 You have to make a choice. 219 00:10:27,409 --> 00:10:29,237 Do you try and go back to the wreck 220 00:10:29,367 --> 00:10:30,934 or do you go into the rainforest? 221 00:10:31,065 --> 00:10:39,065 That must've been absolutely terrifying. 222 00:10:46,036 --> 00:10:54,036 That must've been absolutely terrifying. 223 00:10:54,349 --> 00:10:56,177 - The Bribri adopted them. - Yeah. 224 00:10:56,307 --> 00:10:57,545 And they went into the rainforest, 225 00:10:57,569 --> 00:10:59,093 and the Bribri adopted them. 226 00:10:59,223 --> 00:11:03,401 That's an amazing, an amazing story. 227 00:11:03,532 --> 00:11:05,186 ♪ 228 00:11:05,316 --> 00:11:07,057 From time to time, these teenage divers 229 00:11:07,188 --> 00:11:10,147 have seen artifacts off shore. 230 00:11:10,278 --> 00:11:12,541 If we can connect them to slave ships, 231 00:11:12,672 --> 00:11:14,935 we'll be able to back up the legends with hard evidence. 232 00:11:15,065 --> 00:11:18,939 ♪ 233 00:11:19,069 --> 00:11:24,161 ♪ 234 00:11:24,292 --> 00:11:27,295 When enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas, 235 00:11:27,425 --> 00:11:29,105 it wasn't just their bodies that came here. 236 00:11:29,210 --> 00:11:31,081 ♪ 237 00:11:31,212 --> 00:11:33,997 They brought their memories and ideas with them. 238 00:11:34,128 --> 00:11:36,130 And there's evidence for this transfer of culture 239 00:11:36,260 --> 00:11:38,088 wherever Africans were taken. 240 00:11:38,219 --> 00:11:43,224 ♪ 241 00:11:43,354 --> 00:11:46,009 In Brazil, tens of thousands of artifacts 242 00:11:46,140 --> 00:11:48,098 have been discovered at a site in Rio de Janeiro, 243 00:11:48,229 --> 00:11:50,187 that once processed 244 00:11:50,318 --> 00:11:52,146 up to 1,000,000 newly enslaved Africans. 245 00:11:52,276 --> 00:11:54,278 ♪ 246 00:11:54,409 --> 00:11:56,019 Archeologists here have unearthed 247 00:11:56,150 --> 00:11:57,629 some of the most intimate objects 248 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:05,760 associated with the slave trade. 249 00:12:11,513 --> 00:12:13,341 This is a cowrie shell. 250 00:12:13,471 --> 00:12:14,579 You see these in the Gulf of Guinea 251 00:12:14,603 --> 00:12:22,219 on the coast of West and Central Africa. 252 00:12:22,350 --> 00:12:23,544 So an enslaved African would have brought this 253 00:12:23,568 --> 00:12:26,180 with them right up to Brazil? 254 00:12:26,310 --> 00:12:27,310 Yes. 255 00:12:39,497 --> 00:12:41,238 - It's incredible. - Yeah. 256 00:12:41,369 --> 00:12:43,588 So this is a pipe that an African 257 00:12:43,719 --> 00:12:45,566 would have actually brought with them and smoked. 258 00:12:45,590 --> 00:12:47,114 Yeah. 259 00:12:47,244 --> 00:12:48,395 There's something quite intimate about that. 260 00:12:48,419 --> 00:12:51,988 It's a very personal thing that you carry with you 261 00:12:52,119 --> 00:12:56,427 that you use for comfort. 262 00:12:56,558 --> 00:12:57,820 Oh wow. 263 00:12:57,951 --> 00:13:00,040 These are the kinds of beads that African women wear- 264 00:13:00,170 --> 00:13:01,476 Yes. 265 00:13:01,606 --> 00:13:03,367 Right up till today, you see them in countries 266 00:13:03,391 --> 00:13:04,566 in West Africa. 267 00:13:04,696 --> 00:13:09,484 I'm just imagining a woman who was enslaved 268 00:13:09,614 --> 00:13:13,053 clinging on to this vestige of her dignity, 269 00:13:13,183 --> 00:13:18,449 of her style, of her culture. 270 00:13:18,580 --> 00:13:20,277 Is it a spiritual thing? 271 00:13:20,408 --> 00:13:21,689 Does it bring good luck or protection? 272 00:13:21,713 --> 00:13:23,106 Protection, mostly perfections. 273 00:13:26,893 --> 00:13:29,330 So that culture of wearing these survives till today 274 00:13:29,460 --> 00:13:31,898 in areas where there's a lot of African heritage in Brazil? 275 00:13:32,028 --> 00:13:33,028 Yes. 276 00:13:39,340 --> 00:13:41,211 - It is a ring. - Yep. 277 00:13:41,342 --> 00:13:44,258 As a woman, I know that a ring is a very precious thing, 278 00:13:44,388 --> 00:13:45,999 no matter what it's made out of. 279 00:13:46,129 --> 00:13:48,392 It's a very personal object. 280 00:13:48,523 --> 00:13:50,307 Now looking at all of these things, 281 00:13:50,438 --> 00:13:53,180 I feel that when we talk about the Africans 282 00:13:53,310 --> 00:13:55,269 involved in the slave trade, 283 00:13:55,399 --> 00:13:57,271 they're often these nameless faceless victims, 284 00:13:57,401 --> 00:13:59,273 we don't have photos of them. 285 00:13:59,403 --> 00:14:02,276 Their names were changed or forgotten, 286 00:14:02,406 --> 00:14:05,018 but these things are so personal and intimate, 287 00:14:05,148 --> 00:14:07,629 it really gives them a face. 288 00:14:07,759 --> 00:14:10,327 Really brings them to life as living people 289 00:14:10,458 --> 00:14:16,246 who had their own style, their habits and their culture. 290 00:14:16,377 --> 00:14:21,382 ♪ 291 00:14:21,512 --> 00:14:23,688 Most people in Costa Rica don't take the folklore 292 00:14:23,819 --> 00:14:26,300 about the Bribri's ancestry very seriously, 293 00:14:26,430 --> 00:14:30,521 but marine archeologist Andreas Bloch does. 294 00:14:30,652 --> 00:14:34,308 He thinks he might even have identified 295 00:14:34,438 --> 00:14:37,180 the exact ships the legends are talking about. 296 00:14:37,311 --> 00:14:39,269 He found the clues in the archives 297 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:40,270 back home in Denmark. 298 00:14:40,401 --> 00:14:42,316 ♪ 299 00:14:42,446 --> 00:14:44,579 I didn't know Denmark was involved in the slave trade. 300 00:14:44,709 --> 00:14:47,234 I didn't know how large scale we were involved 301 00:14:47,364 --> 00:14:48,539 in slave trade. 302 00:14:48,670 --> 00:14:50,715 I couldn't believe when I started looking 303 00:14:50,846 --> 00:14:52,674 at what had been written. [rooster crowing] 304 00:14:52,804 --> 00:14:55,677 Scholars suspect that two specific slave ships 305 00:14:55,807 --> 00:14:57,026 made it to this coast. 306 00:14:57,157 --> 00:14:58,375 I think they're right. 307 00:14:58,506 --> 00:15:00,226 Looking at the material, it's the first time 308 00:15:00,334 --> 00:15:02,118 that Denmark ever sends two ships 309 00:15:02,249 --> 00:15:04,773 on the same sort of voyage. 310 00:15:04,904 --> 00:15:08,124 They left Copenhagen and 1708, 311 00:15:08,255 --> 00:15:10,387 "Christianus Quintus" 312 00:15:10,518 --> 00:15:12,346 and "Fredericus Quartus." 313 00:15:12,476 --> 00:15:14,783 They're going to go to West Africa, 314 00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:18,134 get slaves and then transport them to the West Indies. 315 00:15:18,265 --> 00:15:20,745 When they leave West Africa, 316 00:15:20,876 --> 00:15:22,443 they are in bad weather conditions, 317 00:15:22,573 --> 00:15:24,793 but they're completely lost. 318 00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:29,189 They're in open waters for days and days and days. 319 00:15:29,319 --> 00:15:31,104 And they end up about here. 320 00:15:31,234 --> 00:15:33,367 - Ola. - Hi, guys. 321 00:15:33,497 --> 00:15:36,109 One of the reasons that we know that the two ships could be here 322 00:15:36,239 --> 00:15:37,632 is because in the archives, 323 00:15:37,762 --> 00:15:40,940 the name Caretto is mentioned. 324 00:15:41,070 --> 00:15:43,681 That was where they ended up, but that doesn't exist. 325 00:15:43,812 --> 00:15:46,858 So Caretto sounds a lot like Cahuita. 326 00:15:46,989 --> 00:15:49,513 And that is one of the reasons that it could be here. 327 00:15:49,644 --> 00:15:51,994 ♪ 328 00:15:52,125 --> 00:15:54,649 From the historical records, we know that the crew 329 00:15:54,779 --> 00:15:56,738 of "The Fredericus" and "The Christianus" 330 00:15:56,868 --> 00:15:58,914 anchored the ships close to shore 331 00:15:59,045 --> 00:16:01,134 and then mutinied against their captains. 332 00:16:01,264 --> 00:16:02,744 [all shouting] 333 00:16:02,874 --> 00:16:05,181 The conditions on board were horrendous. 334 00:16:05,312 --> 00:16:07,183 There was no food, no water, 335 00:16:07,314 --> 00:16:08,532 and they were afraid to die. 336 00:16:08,663 --> 00:16:10,230 [loud blast] 337 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,188 "The Fredericus" was set on fire 338 00:16:12,319 --> 00:16:13,383 and the crew on "The Christianus" 339 00:16:13,407 --> 00:16:15,670 cut the anchor and the ship ran aground. 340 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,282 ♪ 341 00:16:19,413 --> 00:16:21,415 The objects on board sank with the ships 342 00:16:21,545 --> 00:16:23,721 and scattered across the ocean floor. 343 00:16:23,852 --> 00:16:31,425 ♪ 344 00:16:31,555 --> 00:16:33,557 Most of the Africans were set ashore. 345 00:16:33,688 --> 00:16:34,994 ♪ 346 00:16:35,124 --> 00:16:37,474 So these might be some of the first Africans 347 00:16:37,605 --> 00:16:39,911 coming to this area and populating it. 348 00:16:40,042 --> 00:16:44,351 [SALVADOR] So we have seen a lot of artifacts out there. 349 00:16:44,481 --> 00:16:48,833 How can we link all these objects to that time period 350 00:16:48,964 --> 00:16:51,662 in which the ship actually shipwrecked here? 351 00:16:51,793 --> 00:16:54,709 Hopefully we'll find these clues that point to 352 00:16:54,839 --> 00:16:58,321 these two wrecks being "Christianus Quintus" 353 00:16:58,452 --> 00:17:00,410 and "Fredericus Quartus." 354 00:17:00,541 --> 00:17:04,153 This looks like a cargo list. Is that correct? 355 00:17:04,284 --> 00:17:05,459 Yeah, it is. 356 00:17:05,589 --> 00:17:07,437 We can see there's loads of different stuff here. 357 00:17:07,461 --> 00:17:09,332 These are canvas and there's clothes 358 00:17:09,463 --> 00:17:11,987 and there's handguns and there's timbers 359 00:17:12,118 --> 00:17:14,903 and there's bottles of wine and brandy. 360 00:17:15,034 --> 00:17:18,385 What key pieces of information and evidence 361 00:17:18,515 --> 00:17:19,971 do you have in these records that would connect them 362 00:17:19,995 --> 00:17:22,041 to these two wrecks? 363 00:17:22,171 --> 00:17:24,391 There's a lot of artifacts that would survive. 364 00:17:24,521 --> 00:17:27,394 The ceramics would survive, the glass bottles 365 00:17:27,524 --> 00:17:29,874 that are very specific in this period would survive. 366 00:17:30,005 --> 00:17:31,267 That's what we focus on. 367 00:17:31,398 --> 00:17:33,095 Sounds like we need to go diving. 368 00:17:33,226 --> 00:17:38,361 ♪ 369 00:17:38,492 --> 00:17:40,276 Africa's contribution to world culture 370 00:17:40,407 --> 00:17:42,583 has been pretty much ignored. 371 00:17:42,713 --> 00:17:47,631 ♪ 372 00:17:47,762 --> 00:17:49,503 I'm traveling to Lalibela 373 00:17:49,633 --> 00:17:51,461 to see one of the wonders of the world. 374 00:17:51,592 --> 00:17:59,513 ♪ 375 00:17:59,643 --> 00:18:02,733 It's an 800-year-old Orthodox church 376 00:18:02,864 --> 00:18:08,870 carved into the ground out of a single piece of rock. 377 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,177 - It's quite magical. - Absolutely. 378 00:18:11,307 --> 00:18:13,092 ♪ 379 00:18:13,222 --> 00:18:16,747 I'm meeting the world's leading expert on African fractals. 380 00:18:16,878 --> 00:18:20,403 So tell me about fractals. What are fractals? 381 00:18:20,534 --> 00:18:22,753 Fractals are just the simplest thing in the world. 382 00:18:22,884 --> 00:18:25,756 So it's simply a pattern that repeats itself 383 00:18:25,887 --> 00:18:28,411 at different scales. 384 00:18:28,542 --> 00:18:30,631 So when you were looking at a building like this, 385 00:18:30,761 --> 00:18:34,809 you're saying the crosses on top big, medium, small. 386 00:18:34,939 --> 00:18:37,004 Right. You've got the cross within cross within crosses 387 00:18:37,028 --> 00:18:38,813 on the roof. 388 00:18:38,943 --> 00:18:41,772 At the very center there's a sort of X form. 389 00:18:41,903 --> 00:18:44,079 You can think of that as the self-reproducing heart 390 00:18:44,210 --> 00:18:46,908 of the fractal, where the thing emanates from. 391 00:18:47,038 --> 00:18:49,824 If you look down into the interior here, 392 00:18:49,954 --> 00:18:53,088 you can see that the ripples of that cross 393 00:18:53,219 --> 00:18:56,918 continue from the base of the church. 394 00:18:57,048 --> 00:18:59,529 This is really a geometric theme 395 00:18:59,660 --> 00:19:01,314 that occurs again and again and again 396 00:19:01,444 --> 00:19:02,967 in these African structures. 397 00:19:03,098 --> 00:19:04,969 This is a different way of looking at the world 398 00:19:05,100 --> 00:19:06,971 than Westerners are used to. 399 00:19:07,102 --> 00:19:08,930 Yes, that's right. 400 00:19:09,060 --> 00:19:12,412 Nature has this fractal geometry. 401 00:19:12,542 --> 00:19:15,458 It has this self similar geometry to it. 402 00:19:15,589 --> 00:19:18,592 A tree for example, you could have a branch 403 00:19:18,722 --> 00:19:20,550 and then that branch can have branches, 404 00:19:20,681 --> 00:19:22,726 and those branches can have branches. 405 00:19:22,857 --> 00:19:26,469 Clouds, the clouds are puffs of puffs. 406 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,777 You see that in mountains, peaks of peaks of peaks. 407 00:19:29,907 --> 00:19:31,735 - Snowflakes. - Yes, exactly. 408 00:19:31,866 --> 00:19:35,565 So you have this fractal scaling in nature. 409 00:19:35,696 --> 00:19:39,482 But I was looking at these aerial photographs 410 00:19:39,613 --> 00:19:42,398 of African villages, thinking to myself, 411 00:19:42,529 --> 00:19:44,705 dang, those look like fractals. 412 00:19:44,835 --> 00:19:47,969 And that's when I realized there must be something 413 00:19:48,099 --> 00:19:50,450 culturally specific. 414 00:19:50,580 --> 00:19:53,192 Some form of knowledge that's going into these. 415 00:19:53,322 --> 00:19:55,019 ♪ 416 00:19:55,150 --> 00:19:58,022 Once you understand fractals, and you can sort of read them, 417 00:19:58,153 --> 00:20:01,548 that whole African indigenous knowledge system opens up. 418 00:20:01,678 --> 00:20:03,724 It's all over Africa. 419 00:20:03,854 --> 00:20:06,814 You see them in Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso. 420 00:20:06,944 --> 00:20:08,642 I've seen them in Ghana, and Cameroon, 421 00:20:08,772 --> 00:20:11,732 South Africa, East Tanzania, 422 00:20:11,862 --> 00:20:14,474 just beautiful arrays of these fractal algorithms. 423 00:20:14,604 --> 00:20:17,041 In Addis, there's a whole building 424 00:20:17,172 --> 00:20:18,826 that's a fractal building. 425 00:20:18,956 --> 00:20:19,957 It breathes. 426 00:20:20,088 --> 00:20:22,264 It has a fractal perforation on the skin. 427 00:20:22,395 --> 00:20:26,660 And so they've massively cut the need for air conditioning. 428 00:20:26,790 --> 00:20:28,531 And it took the West a long time 429 00:20:28,662 --> 00:20:31,055 to recognize these patterns. 430 00:20:31,186 --> 00:20:33,841 It wasn't until 1977 431 00:20:33,971 --> 00:20:36,539 that the first book on fractals was published. 432 00:20:36,670 --> 00:20:39,542 Africans have been using it for centuries before then. 433 00:20:39,673 --> 00:20:42,023 [singing in native language] 434 00:20:42,153 --> 00:20:44,286 Did African fractals have an impact on the world? 435 00:20:44,417 --> 00:20:46,288 Yes. 436 00:20:46,419 --> 00:20:49,160 Through a mathematically related fortune telling system. 437 00:20:49,291 --> 00:20:51,772 You're doing these random lines, you're counting them off. 438 00:20:51,902 --> 00:20:54,078 Drawing all these lines in sand. 439 00:20:54,209 --> 00:20:57,081 If there's an even number, you put down two strokes, 440 00:20:57,212 --> 00:20:59,606 there's an odd number, you put down one stroke. 441 00:20:59,736 --> 00:21:01,236 And when I went to these folks and asked them 442 00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:02,759 if they could tell me more about it they said, 443 00:21:02,783 --> 00:21:04,437 "nah, this is a secret." 444 00:21:04,567 --> 00:21:05,916 "I can't tell." 445 00:21:06,047 --> 00:21:07,831 So I had to go through the initiation ritual 446 00:21:07,962 --> 00:21:10,573 to become an Abonnema divination priest. 447 00:21:10,704 --> 00:21:14,534 So what I found was that back in the 12th century, 448 00:21:14,664 --> 00:21:17,188 the system went up into Europe 449 00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:19,713 and it was taken up by the Alchemist. 450 00:21:19,843 --> 00:21:22,498 Now, Leibniz, the German mathematician, 451 00:21:22,629 --> 00:21:24,848 when he invented the binary code, 452 00:21:24,979 --> 00:21:27,242 he was actually studying the system. 453 00:21:27,373 --> 00:21:30,114 And then it goes from Leibniz to George Boole 454 00:21:30,245 --> 00:21:32,116 creating Boolean algebra. 455 00:21:32,247 --> 00:21:33,944 Boolean algebra gets turned into hardware 456 00:21:34,075 --> 00:21:35,555 by John von Neumann, 457 00:21:35,685 --> 00:21:37,992 that's the birth of the digital computer. 458 00:21:38,122 --> 00:21:39,970 So all those little ones and zeroes running around 459 00:21:39,994 --> 00:21:41,256 in all of our digital circuits 460 00:21:41,387 --> 00:21:43,780 really start with that African origin. 461 00:21:43,911 --> 00:21:46,043 There are two different paths that you can take 462 00:21:46,174 --> 00:21:48,045 in mathematics. 463 00:21:48,176 --> 00:21:51,048 One is to think about how to impose order from the top down. 464 00:21:51,179 --> 00:21:54,530 One is think how to allow order to emerge from the bottom up. 465 00:21:54,661 --> 00:21:55,792 ♪ 466 00:21:55,923 --> 00:21:58,186 One of my hopes is that we can now recover 467 00:21:58,317 --> 00:22:00,710 that process that was interrupted by the slave trade. 468 00:22:00,841 --> 00:22:04,975 ♪ 469 00:22:05,106 --> 00:22:11,678 ♪ 470 00:22:11,808 --> 00:22:14,202 We're going to a dive site where young Costa Ricans 471 00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:16,247 have noticed many different artifacts 472 00:22:16,378 --> 00:22:19,033 that might shed light on their history. 473 00:22:42,230 --> 00:22:43,100 Okay. 474 00:22:43,231 --> 00:22:48,410 ♪ 475 00:22:48,541 --> 00:22:50,804 It's finally time to get in the water and start hunting. 476 00:22:50,934 --> 00:22:53,154 ♪ 477 00:22:53,284 --> 00:22:54,653 We're going to snorkel around first, 478 00:22:54,677 --> 00:22:55,852 and do a survey of the area. 479 00:22:55,983 --> 00:23:03,983 ♪ 480 00:23:04,383 --> 00:23:07,995 I hope that it might help to actually put together 481 00:23:08,125 --> 00:23:11,607 like all the pieces of the puzzle 482 00:23:11,738 --> 00:23:16,743 to give the voice to all those people. 483 00:23:16,873 --> 00:23:19,659 It seems easy, but it's not. 484 00:23:19,789 --> 00:23:21,835 This is a huge area to cover. 485 00:23:21,965 --> 00:23:25,012 And over 300 years, tides and storms 486 00:23:25,142 --> 00:23:26,970 would have moved the artifacts around. 487 00:23:27,101 --> 00:23:35,065 ♪ 488 00:23:35,196 --> 00:23:36,980 We can barely see anything down here. 489 00:23:37,111 --> 00:23:38,982 The visibility is so bad. 490 00:23:39,113 --> 00:23:43,247 ♪ 491 00:23:43,378 --> 00:23:46,250 Our job is to discover if there are any remains 492 00:23:46,381 --> 00:23:48,165 of the two Danish slave ships left behind. 493 00:23:48,296 --> 00:23:56,296 ♪ 494 00:24:03,224 --> 00:24:11,224 ♪ 495 00:24:18,152 --> 00:24:19,240 ♪ 496 00:24:19,370 --> 00:24:21,938 Woo! I found something. 497 00:24:22,069 --> 00:24:30,069 ♪ 498 00:24:36,039 --> 00:24:38,085 It's actually kind of hard to see down here, 499 00:24:38,215 --> 00:24:40,304 so I really didn't expect to find anything at all. 500 00:24:40,435 --> 00:24:43,351 What we found here could be significant. 501 00:24:43,482 --> 00:24:45,875 It looks like a period bottle. 502 00:24:46,006 --> 00:24:48,225 It's brown in color. 503 00:24:48,356 --> 00:24:49,705 It seems like it might have some 504 00:24:49,836 --> 00:24:52,273 manufacturing defects on it, 505 00:24:52,403 --> 00:24:55,145 but it's definitely not a modern bottle. 506 00:24:55,276 --> 00:24:58,018 And one discovery leads to another. 507 00:24:58,148 --> 00:25:06,148 ♪ 508 00:25:10,204 --> 00:25:11,379 Woo! 509 00:25:11,510 --> 00:25:13,076 - You got something? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 510 00:25:13,207 --> 00:25:19,300 ♪ 511 00:25:19,430 --> 00:25:21,824 I've never really seen so many artifacts 512 00:25:21,955 --> 00:25:24,174 scattered around in the same place. 513 00:25:43,585 --> 00:25:47,154 Archeologically speaking, this is a treasure trove, right. 514 00:25:47,284 --> 00:25:49,199 There are items all over the place. 515 00:25:49,330 --> 00:25:51,201 So now's the time where we need to get back in, 516 00:25:51,332 --> 00:25:53,900 and start to document and record these things. 517 00:25:54,030 --> 00:25:55,075 Great job, guys. 518 00:25:55,205 --> 00:25:57,207 ♪ 519 00:25:57,338 --> 00:25:59,514 We don't yet know whether these artifacts 520 00:25:59,645 --> 00:26:02,125 are from the slave ships we're trying to identify. 521 00:26:02,256 --> 00:26:05,085 But finding so many so close together 522 00:26:05,215 --> 00:26:06,303 is a giant step forward. 523 00:26:06,434 --> 00:26:10,220 ♪ 524 00:26:10,351 --> 00:26:14,573 ♪ I've got a body, dark and strong. ♪ 525 00:26:14,703 --> 00:26:17,010 ♪ 526 00:26:17,140 --> 00:26:19,316 ♪ I was young, but not for long. ♪ 527 00:26:19,447 --> 00:26:22,972 ♪ 528 00:26:23,103 --> 00:26:25,975 ♪ You took me to bed, a little girl. ♪ 529 00:26:26,106 --> 00:26:29,196 ♪ 530 00:26:29,326 --> 00:26:32,852 ♪ Left me in a woman's world. ♪ 531 00:26:32,982 --> 00:26:35,289 ♪ 532 00:26:35,419 --> 00:26:37,310 I've done a lot of research about time of slavery. 533 00:26:37,334 --> 00:26:39,293 And I was looking at advertisements 534 00:26:39,423 --> 00:26:42,296 where people were putting ads in the paper to sell people. 535 00:26:42,426 --> 00:26:44,864 And I saw one in particular, 536 00:26:44,994 --> 00:26:47,997 it was for a young woman who was for sale. 537 00:26:48,128 --> 00:26:50,609 And at the end of the ad, 538 00:26:50,739 --> 00:26:54,047 it said that she has with her a nine-month-old baby 539 00:26:54,177 --> 00:26:56,179 who was at the purchaser's option. 540 00:26:56,310 --> 00:26:59,966 And I don't know, those words just really... 541 00:27:00,096 --> 00:27:02,229 Stuck with me 542 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,623 and thinking about her in particular. 543 00:27:04,753 --> 00:27:06,189 ♪ 544 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,192 ♪ I got a baby, shall I keep him? ♪ 545 00:27:09,323 --> 00:27:12,239 ♪ 546 00:27:12,369 --> 00:27:15,895 ♪ 'Twill come a day when I'll be weeping ♪ 547 00:27:16,025 --> 00:27:19,246 ♪ 548 00:27:19,376 --> 00:27:22,641 ♪ But how can I love him any less? ♪ 549 00:27:22,771 --> 00:27:25,556 ♪ 550 00:27:25,687 --> 00:27:29,212 ♪ This little babe upon my breast ♪ 551 00:27:29,343 --> 00:27:32,302 ♪ 552 00:27:32,433 --> 00:27:35,349 ♪ You can take my body, you can take my bones, ♪ 553 00:27:35,479 --> 00:27:38,482 ♪ you can take my blood, but not my soul. ♪ 554 00:27:38,613 --> 00:27:42,008 ♪ You can take my body, take my bones, ♪ 555 00:27:42,138 --> 00:27:43,836 ♪ you can take my blood, 556 00:27:43,966 --> 00:27:49,929 ♪ but not my soul. 557 00:27:50,059 --> 00:27:51,887 ♪ 558 00:27:52,018 --> 00:27:53,584 You have this lineage here. 559 00:27:53,715 --> 00:27:57,501 You have this connection historically to that last ship 560 00:27:57,632 --> 00:27:59,068 that was sent over here. 561 00:27:59,199 --> 00:28:01,331 You know where you come from. 562 00:28:01,462 --> 00:28:04,204 I don't know necessarily where my family comes from 563 00:28:04,334 --> 00:28:07,033 in the same way, but musically, 564 00:28:07,163 --> 00:28:09,252 I know my lineage. 565 00:28:09,383 --> 00:28:11,472 There's more than one way to be connected 566 00:28:11,602 --> 00:28:13,213 to who we are as a community. 567 00:28:13,343 --> 00:28:14,910 And it's not just blood. 568 00:28:15,041 --> 00:28:17,696 ♪ 569 00:28:17,826 --> 00:28:20,176 In the gathering place right behind Kazoola, 570 00:28:20,307 --> 00:28:21,917 the Africatown community has symbols 571 00:28:22,048 --> 00:28:23,310 to commemorate their ancestors. 572 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,356 ♪ 573 00:28:26,487 --> 00:28:28,271 Family and friends, in the presence of God, 574 00:28:28,402 --> 00:28:30,273 we come to pour our libation 575 00:28:30,404 --> 00:28:33,102 in memory of our faith and blood. 576 00:28:33,233 --> 00:28:35,757 Growing up not far from here, 577 00:28:35,888 --> 00:28:39,543 I would never have imagined the traditional African ceremony 578 00:28:39,674 --> 00:28:41,545 survived in Alabama. 579 00:28:41,676 --> 00:28:44,853 When we pour libation, we awaken the ancestors. 580 00:28:44,984 --> 00:28:47,116 We talk to them. 581 00:28:47,247 --> 00:28:49,336 We're going to pour forth water to symbolize 582 00:28:49,466 --> 00:28:52,121 the richness of our inheritance, 583 00:28:52,252 --> 00:28:55,211 to symbolize how nourishing is the earth 584 00:28:55,342 --> 00:28:56,343 which has fed our lives 585 00:28:56,473 --> 00:28:58,127 and all our previous generations. 586 00:28:58,258 --> 00:29:00,390 In response to each pouring, 587 00:29:00,521 --> 00:29:04,568 I would like for you to respond "ashe", 588 00:29:04,699 --> 00:29:06,135 which means, "so be it." 589 00:29:06,266 --> 00:29:08,094 Repeat after me, ashe. 590 00:29:08,224 --> 00:29:09,312 Ashe. 591 00:29:09,443 --> 00:29:11,097 ♪ 592 00:29:11,227 --> 00:29:14,230 For many years, those Africans from "The Clotilda" 593 00:29:14,361 --> 00:29:17,103 held rituals and rites and buried their kin 594 00:29:17,233 --> 00:29:20,019 in this sacred space. 595 00:29:20,149 --> 00:29:22,586 If you would, call out the names 596 00:29:22,717 --> 00:29:25,111 of those who you have buried. 597 00:29:25,241 --> 00:29:26,241 Kazoola. 598 00:29:26,329 --> 00:29:27,983 Ashe. 599 00:29:28,114 --> 00:29:30,986 - [man shouts name] - Ashe. 600 00:29:31,117 --> 00:29:33,032 - [woman shouts name] - Ashe. 601 00:29:33,162 --> 00:29:36,383 ♪ 602 00:29:36,513 --> 00:29:38,211 Ashe. 603 00:29:38,341 --> 00:29:40,779 [roars] 604 00:29:40,909 --> 00:29:43,520 ♪ 605 00:29:43,651 --> 00:29:46,393 We found many different artifacts on our last dive, 606 00:29:46,523 --> 00:29:48,569 but only Andreas can tell us if they match 607 00:29:48,699 --> 00:29:50,614 the two Danish slave ships 608 00:29:50,745 --> 00:29:53,356 that may have brought the enslaved Africans over here. 609 00:29:53,487 --> 00:29:56,620 ♪ 610 00:29:56,751 --> 00:29:58,318 What do you think? 611 00:29:58,448 --> 00:30:02,539 This plate, I'm quite sure that that is after 1850. 612 00:30:02,670 --> 00:30:07,066 So if it's from after 1710, it's not related to the wrecks. 613 00:30:07,196 --> 00:30:09,372 This is a broken piece of ceramic. 614 00:30:09,503 --> 00:30:11,200 What do you think about that? 615 00:30:11,331 --> 00:30:13,246 Could be from this period? 616 00:30:13,376 --> 00:30:19,208 It could also be 150, 180 years more recent. 617 00:30:19,339 --> 00:30:21,297 Also, this is an interesting bottle. 618 00:30:21,428 --> 00:30:23,256 ♪ 619 00:30:23,386 --> 00:30:24,786 It's difficult to see in this photo, 620 00:30:24,866 --> 00:30:27,869 but it looks like it has the shape of this onion bottle. 621 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,306 That's one of the things that we know from the cargo list 622 00:30:30,437 --> 00:30:33,266 is that we have 66 bottles of wine. 623 00:30:33,396 --> 00:30:36,312 And we also know that we have French brandy. 624 00:30:36,443 --> 00:30:39,141 So this particular piece is quite promising then? 625 00:30:39,272 --> 00:30:41,622 This is definitely an interesting object. 626 00:30:41,752 --> 00:30:45,321 There are artifacts here from so many time periods 627 00:30:45,452 --> 00:30:47,541 that we can't fully identify any of them 628 00:30:47,671 --> 00:30:49,369 with the Danish ships. 629 00:30:49,499 --> 00:30:52,285 So Andreas wants to focus on a kind of object 630 00:30:52,415 --> 00:30:54,591 that could have only come from Denmark. 631 00:30:54,722 --> 00:30:57,899 So we know that there are all these different types of cargo. 632 00:30:58,030 --> 00:31:02,251 Handguns, and there's bottles of wine and brandy. 633 00:31:02,382 --> 00:31:04,182 But one thing that is very specifically Danish 634 00:31:04,297 --> 00:31:06,081 is the yellow brick. 635 00:31:06,212 --> 00:31:07,517 The yellow brick? 636 00:31:07,648 --> 00:31:09,648 We know from the archives that they usually carried 637 00:31:09,737 --> 00:31:12,261 sort of around 40,000 bricks. 638 00:31:12,392 --> 00:31:14,698 What would make these bricks Danish? 639 00:31:14,829 --> 00:31:18,180 The size of the brick is specifically very, very Danish. 640 00:31:18,311 --> 00:31:21,357 - I did bring one. - Can we see? 641 00:31:21,488 --> 00:31:23,620 - Can we handle it? - You can handle it. 642 00:31:23,751 --> 00:31:26,319 This is a brick found in Denmark, 643 00:31:26,449 --> 00:31:28,712 and this size is specifically Danish. 644 00:31:28,843 --> 00:31:31,759 And it's very often that they're yellow. 645 00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:35,067 If you were to find bricks of this size, this color, 646 00:31:35,197 --> 00:31:36,633 could be more reddish, 647 00:31:36,764 --> 00:31:39,419 then it would definitely be a smoking gun. 648 00:31:39,549 --> 00:31:41,551 So there would be a lot of bricks? 649 00:31:41,682 --> 00:31:43,522 Probably not going to look like a gigantic pile 650 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,077 of 40,000 bricks, 651 00:31:45,207 --> 00:31:49,385 but it will be sort of a substantial area of bricks. 652 00:31:49,516 --> 00:31:52,171 So this is what we're looking for, huh? 653 00:31:52,301 --> 00:31:53,322 This will be our smoking gun. 654 00:31:53,346 --> 00:31:56,915 ♪ 655 00:31:57,045 --> 00:32:00,744 [Narrator] Jamaica was a plantation economy, 656 00:32:00,875 --> 00:32:03,051 completely dependent on hundreds of thousands 657 00:32:03,182 --> 00:32:04,618 of enslaved Africans. 658 00:32:04,748 --> 00:32:09,492 Remarkably, some of them helped plant the first seeds 659 00:32:09,623 --> 00:32:11,451 of democracy in the Americas. 660 00:32:11,581 --> 00:32:13,235 ♪ 661 00:32:13,366 --> 00:32:14,671 - Dorrick. - Hey. 662 00:32:14,802 --> 00:32:15,629 - Hi. - Hello 663 00:32:15,759 --> 00:32:16,759 So good to meet you. 664 00:32:16,804 --> 00:32:19,328 Yes. Welcome. Welcome to Port Royal. 665 00:32:19,459 --> 00:32:20,459 Thank you. 666 00:32:20,547 --> 00:32:22,157 And it all connects 667 00:32:22,288 --> 00:32:25,726 to the original Pirates of the Caribbean. 668 00:32:25,856 --> 00:32:28,947 What kind of city was here in the 1600s? 669 00:32:37,694 --> 00:32:39,914 [indistinct chatter] 670 00:32:40,045 --> 00:32:42,917 Port Royal was also full of brothels. 671 00:32:43,048 --> 00:32:46,921 It was known as the wickedest city on earth. 672 00:32:47,052 --> 00:32:49,402 But along with all that drinking and debauchery, 673 00:32:49,532 --> 00:32:52,187 came freedom and the form of democracy 674 00:32:52,318 --> 00:32:54,363 in which Africans would play a part. 675 00:32:54,494 --> 00:32:55,756 [laughter] 676 00:33:02,110 --> 00:33:04,373 I heard there were records showing pirate ships 677 00:33:04,504 --> 00:33:08,073 whose crews were made up of as much as 30% escaped Africans. 678 00:33:08,203 --> 00:33:09,726 Yes. 679 00:33:09,857 --> 00:33:12,120 The plantations were complaining that they had 680 00:33:12,251 --> 00:33:14,253 2,500 enslaved Africans 681 00:33:14,383 --> 00:33:18,170 that ran away to join the pirates. 682 00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:20,302 [cannon blast] 683 00:33:20,433 --> 00:33:22,304 When you're on board these vessels, 684 00:33:22,435 --> 00:33:24,611 every man was equal. 685 00:33:24,741 --> 00:33:28,267 It was not question of the color of your skin, 686 00:33:28,397 --> 00:33:30,791 but it was the skills you have. 687 00:33:30,921 --> 00:33:32,532 Pirates actually gave opportunities? 688 00:33:32,662 --> 00:33:33,837 Yes. 689 00:33:33,968 --> 00:33:37,580 Because on board, it was one man, one vote. 690 00:33:42,150 --> 00:33:44,326 It is remarkable that at a time when Africans 691 00:33:44,457 --> 00:33:46,328 had been classified as subhuman, 692 00:33:46,459 --> 00:33:48,896 here was a world where they had an equal vote, 693 00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:52,030 and an equal say alongside their white counterparts. 694 00:34:01,082 --> 00:34:03,432 So here is the remains of Port Royal 695 00:34:03,563 --> 00:34:05,478 that is now completely submerged. 696 00:34:05,608 --> 00:34:07,610 - Submerged underwater. - Underwater. 697 00:34:07,741 --> 00:34:11,353 I'm not a diver, but I can snorkel. 698 00:34:11,484 --> 00:34:13,573 So I joined the pros to see what remains 699 00:34:13,703 --> 00:34:15,183 of this underwater city. 700 00:34:15,314 --> 00:34:16,445 Woo! 701 00:34:16,576 --> 00:34:22,712 ♪ 702 00:34:22,843 --> 00:34:25,063 You can still see the foundations of buildings 703 00:34:25,193 --> 00:34:29,589 and sometimes 17th century artifacts 704 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,199 like this onion bottle. 705 00:34:31,330 --> 00:34:32,809 ♪ 706 00:34:32,940 --> 00:34:36,509 [all laugh] 707 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:40,861 For about 20 years, this submerged city 708 00:34:40,991 --> 00:34:43,037 was a place where Black pirates 709 00:34:43,168 --> 00:34:46,432 got to vote at sea and on land, 710 00:34:46,562 --> 00:34:49,870 helping to plant democratic ideas 711 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,437 in the new world. 712 00:34:51,567 --> 00:34:58,313 ♪ 713 00:34:58,444 --> 00:34:59,967 After talking with the locals, 714 00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:02,665 we learned that there are a few more locations further out 715 00:35:02,796 --> 00:35:04,711 that could have what we're looking for: 716 00:35:04,841 --> 00:35:08,671 Evidence of Danish slave ships. 717 00:35:08,802 --> 00:35:10,162 In addition to those yellow bricks, 718 00:35:10,282 --> 00:35:13,763 we're also looking for bigger things like cannons, 719 00:35:13,894 --> 00:35:16,984 cannon balls, gold, and even ivory: 720 00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:20,161 things which would have been on the slave ships from Africa. 721 00:35:20,292 --> 00:35:23,773 Since we're headed further out and going into deeper water, 722 00:35:23,904 --> 00:35:25,340 snorkeling won't cut it. 723 00:35:25,471 --> 00:35:27,995 We're going to dive. 724 00:35:28,126 --> 00:35:32,347 So we need to talk dive plan and a bit more about safety. 725 00:35:32,478 --> 00:35:35,959 Salvador is going to be the lead youth diver 726 00:35:36,090 --> 00:35:38,614 in terms of safety. 727 00:35:38,745 --> 00:35:40,625 I know it's not very deep, we've had instructors 728 00:35:40,660 --> 00:35:42,618 drown in 10 feet of water. 729 00:35:42,749 --> 00:35:44,838 So be aware of how much air you got 730 00:35:44,968 --> 00:35:45,968 remaining in your tank. 731 00:35:46,056 --> 00:35:48,363 Don't take no dive for granted, okay? 732 00:35:48,494 --> 00:35:50,887 Your life depends on your skills, 733 00:35:51,018 --> 00:35:53,673 your equipment and your attitude. 734 00:35:53,803 --> 00:35:55,892 Everybody comprende? - I do. 735 00:35:56,023 --> 00:35:57,372 Si. 736 00:35:57,503 --> 00:35:58,958 All right, let's do it. Pool's open, let's go. 737 00:35:58,982 --> 00:36:06,982 ♪ 738 00:36:13,954 --> 00:36:21,954 ♪ 739 00:36:28,882 --> 00:36:33,843 ♪ 740 00:36:33,974 --> 00:36:41,024 ♪ 741 00:36:41,155 --> 00:36:43,723 Very soon, we start to come across shards of pottery 742 00:36:43,853 --> 00:36:45,551 and a broken bottle, 743 00:36:45,681 --> 00:36:47,137 little clues that we hope will lead us 744 00:36:47,161 --> 00:36:48,510 to something much bigger. 745 00:36:48,641 --> 00:36:56,641 ♪ 746 00:37:03,264 --> 00:37:06,659 Amazingly, Anderson swims right into a cluster of cannons. 747 00:37:06,789 --> 00:37:08,791 It's exactly the kind of evidence 748 00:37:08,922 --> 00:37:10,967 we've been searching for. 749 00:37:11,098 --> 00:37:13,579 The more I saw, the more there were. 750 00:37:13,709 --> 00:37:15,276 So that was amazing. 751 00:37:15,407 --> 00:37:17,800 They're beside each other, they're across each other. 752 00:37:17,931 --> 00:37:20,542 ♪ 753 00:37:20,673 --> 00:37:23,110 There are some cannons that just looked like coral. 754 00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:25,591 They were so heavily encrusted, the ocean's taking it back. 755 00:37:25,721 --> 00:37:27,506 ♪ 756 00:37:27,636 --> 00:37:29,551 But we know distinctively that they're cannons. 757 00:37:29,682 --> 00:37:31,553 You can see the bore on some of them. 758 00:37:31,684 --> 00:37:32,989 Some of the bores are covered up. 759 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,731 ♪ 760 00:37:35,862 --> 00:37:38,212 Cannons can give us a lot of information. 761 00:37:38,343 --> 00:37:40,606 We saw about eight, 10, maybe 12. 762 00:37:40,736 --> 00:37:42,651 But if there's more, it could tell us 763 00:37:42,782 --> 00:37:44,523 the size of the vessel. 764 00:37:44,653 --> 00:37:46,089 We know the size of "The Fredericus" 765 00:37:46,220 --> 00:37:47,874 and "The Christianus" 766 00:37:48,004 --> 00:37:49,658 so, that would be very insightful. 767 00:37:49,789 --> 00:37:52,270 The cannons were amazing, 768 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,707 but there were still more surprises to come. 769 00:37:54,837 --> 00:37:56,274 ♪ 770 00:37:56,404 --> 00:37:59,189 Even with 300 years of coral growth, 771 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,062 there was no mistaking the shape of our next discovery: 772 00:38:02,192 --> 00:38:06,066 A fully intact anchor. 773 00:38:06,196 --> 00:38:09,635 The shape of the anchor, it's about three, four meters. 774 00:38:09,765 --> 00:38:11,071 Come from a very large ship 775 00:38:11,201 --> 00:38:13,073 just based on the size of that anchor. 776 00:38:13,203 --> 00:38:15,510 Two floats are there. 777 00:38:15,641 --> 00:38:17,730 Each one is about a foot wide 778 00:38:17,860 --> 00:38:20,472 and maybe another foot and a half long. 779 00:38:20,602 --> 00:38:22,038 So in beautiful shape. 780 00:38:22,169 --> 00:38:24,171 There's some incredible stuff. 781 00:38:24,302 --> 00:38:26,173 Some more evidence that we can put in the mix 782 00:38:26,304 --> 00:38:28,915 and try to figure out what's going on at the site. 783 00:38:29,045 --> 00:38:31,526 ♪ 784 00:38:31,657 --> 00:38:33,136 The first time I saw the anchor, 785 00:38:33,267 --> 00:38:34,964 for me is amazing. 786 00:38:35,095 --> 00:38:37,358 I asked my grandfather and my grandmother 787 00:38:37,489 --> 00:38:41,144 and they both say yes, I had an African ancestors, 788 00:38:41,275 --> 00:38:43,930 and they both had like connecting histories 789 00:38:44,060 --> 00:38:46,106 with slaves. 790 00:38:46,236 --> 00:38:48,761 To know that makes me feel that 791 00:38:48,891 --> 00:38:50,086 I'm more connected to my history. 792 00:38:50,110 --> 00:38:52,591 ♪ 793 00:38:52,721 --> 00:38:54,027 It's not in the history books. 794 00:38:54,157 --> 00:38:56,072 It's not in the documents. 795 00:38:56,203 --> 00:38:58,292 And if they find it themselves, 796 00:38:58,423 --> 00:39:00,338 they begin asking the right questions. 797 00:39:00,468 --> 00:39:04,994 And the right question is, where do I come from? 798 00:39:05,125 --> 00:39:08,911 What has that meant in the life of me and my community? 799 00:39:09,042 --> 00:39:13,525 ♪ 800 00:39:13,655 --> 00:39:14,676 Clearly the pieces of the puzzle 801 00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:16,789 are falling into place. 802 00:39:16,919 --> 00:39:19,835 But going off of what Andreas has said, 803 00:39:19,966 --> 00:39:21,968 we're continuing to follow the yellow brick road. 804 00:39:22,098 --> 00:39:30,098 ♪ 805 00:39:33,936 --> 00:39:36,243 Jekyll Island, Georgia, like Africatown, 806 00:39:36,374 --> 00:39:39,028 is where one of the very last slave ships arrived, 807 00:39:39,159 --> 00:39:42,205 bringing 409 people here 808 00:39:42,336 --> 00:39:44,860 just seven years before the end of the Civil War. 809 00:39:44,991 --> 00:39:46,819 ♪ 810 00:39:46,949 --> 00:39:49,082 Matthew Raiford studied at some of the finest 811 00:39:49,212 --> 00:39:51,084 international schools of cuisine, 812 00:39:51,214 --> 00:39:55,175 but he's returned here to honor the cuisine and culture 813 00:39:55,305 --> 00:39:58,178 that was created by his ancestors. 814 00:39:58,308 --> 00:40:00,308 [MATTHEW] Going to school, I would say things like, 815 00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:03,313 "Well, there's another way to do that right there." 816 00:40:03,444 --> 00:40:04,793 And folks would look at me like, 817 00:40:04,924 --> 00:40:06,075 "what do you mean it's another way?" 818 00:40:06,099 --> 00:40:07,163 "We're learning French cuisine." 819 00:40:07,187 --> 00:40:08,493 And I was like, 820 00:40:08,623 --> 00:40:09,102 "Well, my grandmother would do it like this." 821 00:40:09,232 --> 00:40:10,886 Grandma's food tasted better. 822 00:40:11,017 --> 00:40:12,255 And my grandma food tasted better, right? 823 00:40:12,279 --> 00:40:14,324 Raiford's come back to his family farm 824 00:40:14,455 --> 00:40:17,284 as an activist, farmer and chef, 825 00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:21,288 celebrating African American culture through food. 826 00:40:21,419 --> 00:40:24,334 We live on our own family farm. 827 00:40:24,465 --> 00:40:28,034 We've had that land since 1874 and we've always farmed it. 828 00:40:28,164 --> 00:40:30,123 We're still farming it now. 829 00:40:30,253 --> 00:40:33,909 And we're still using a lot of the old ways to farm. 830 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:35,880 So I'm doing a little quick little cooking demo 831 00:40:35,998 --> 00:40:38,305 off of things that we grow on the farm, 832 00:40:38,436 --> 00:40:40,873 and then things that comes from the Gullah Geechee culture. 833 00:40:41,003 --> 00:40:44,180 ♪ 834 00:40:44,311 --> 00:40:46,879 Gullah Geechee culture is an African culture 835 00:40:47,009 --> 00:40:48,924 that took root on the sea islands, 836 00:40:49,055 --> 00:40:51,187 along the Atlantic coast of Georgia, 837 00:40:51,318 --> 00:40:54,190 Florida, North and South Carolina. 838 00:40:54,321 --> 00:40:57,890 See, during the Civil War, the white plantation owners 839 00:40:58,020 --> 00:41:01,850 fled in fear of former slaves seeking revenge. 840 00:41:01,981 --> 00:41:04,070 I mean, the African population left on its own. 841 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:05,854 It had to hone its survival skills. 842 00:41:05,985 --> 00:41:11,730 ♪ 843 00:41:11,860 --> 00:41:13,906 How do you make a living when A, 844 00:41:14,036 --> 00:41:15,156 you don't have an education, 845 00:41:15,255 --> 00:41:17,257 you're stuck on a barrier Island? 846 00:41:17,387 --> 00:41:19,128 A lot of them mined what they learned 847 00:41:19,259 --> 00:41:21,740 and what they saw here 848 00:41:21,870 --> 00:41:23,326 and figured out a way to make it work. 849 00:41:23,350 --> 00:41:25,352 - Did they? - They did. 850 00:41:25,483 --> 00:41:28,094 I'm living proof that they did, 851 00:41:28,224 --> 00:41:30,096 and they did a good job of it too. 852 00:41:30,226 --> 00:41:32,794 So when they were crossing the Atlantic, 853 00:41:32,925 --> 00:41:36,189 when they were shipping their cargo, 854 00:41:36,319 --> 00:41:38,234 people, human beings, 855 00:41:38,365 --> 00:41:40,323 those human beings came with their culture? 856 00:41:40,454 --> 00:41:43,109 Absolutely. We brought our ways with us. 857 00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:44,399 We brought our foods with us. 858 00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:49,724 We bought our use of spices, of salts, of cookery. 859 00:41:49,855 --> 00:41:52,118 So when I think about American food, 860 00:41:52,248 --> 00:41:55,295 I think about the African influences 861 00:41:55,425 --> 00:41:58,211 on what comes to our plate, but also in what we grow. 862 00:41:58,341 --> 00:42:00,300 So a lot of what I thought is Southern cooking 863 00:42:00,430 --> 00:42:02,258 is really Gullah cooking: 864 00:42:02,389 --> 00:42:05,044 A cuisine made up of many ingredients 865 00:42:05,174 --> 00:42:06,654 that Africans brought here, 866 00:42:06,785 --> 00:42:08,134 including rice, 867 00:42:08,264 --> 00:42:11,093 sweet peas and okra. 868 00:42:11,224 --> 00:42:13,139 I just threw in a little bit of red pepper in, 869 00:42:13,269 --> 00:42:14,923 I want that red pepper to still have 870 00:42:15,054 --> 00:42:16,316 a little bit of bite to it. 871 00:42:16,446 --> 00:42:18,797 So that's why I put it in a little bit later. 872 00:42:18,927 --> 00:42:21,364 You've been cooking longer than that. 873 00:42:21,495 --> 00:42:23,802 Well, I'm 76 years old. 874 00:42:23,932 --> 00:42:25,455 I've been cooking since I was eight. 875 00:42:25,586 --> 00:42:26,979 - So. - My mother and father, 876 00:42:27,109 --> 00:42:28,217 they taught us how to cook everything. 877 00:42:28,241 --> 00:42:30,243 Is that where Matthew gets it? 878 00:42:30,373 --> 00:42:32,158 Well, let me tell you that boy right there, 879 00:42:32,288 --> 00:42:33,986 he's a good cook. 880 00:42:34,116 --> 00:42:35,920 I got to give him credit. He is better than me. 881 00:42:35,944 --> 00:42:37,337 I hate to say it. 882 00:42:37,467 --> 00:42:39,513 Do you remember a favorite dish from your mom? 883 00:42:39,644 --> 00:42:41,994 You know, you ever eat fried chicken gizzards? 884 00:42:42,124 --> 00:42:44,997 Not fried chicken gizzards, no. 885 00:42:45,127 --> 00:42:46,967 Yeah, people used to throw them away years ago. 886 00:42:46,999 --> 00:42:48,324 My mother used to go to slaughterhouse, 887 00:42:48,348 --> 00:42:49,958 they'd give them to her. 888 00:42:50,089 --> 00:42:51,449 She bring them home, clean them up. 889 00:42:51,569 --> 00:42:53,179 - Was it good? - Oh, yeah. 890 00:42:53,309 --> 00:42:55,703 Put a little pepper and salt in there. 891 00:42:55,834 --> 00:42:57,096 I do it today. 892 00:42:57,226 --> 00:43:05,226 ♪ 893 00:43:06,366 --> 00:43:08,411 So this is our vegetarian paella right here. 894 00:43:08,542 --> 00:43:10,196 Have a little bit of sweet potato leaves, 895 00:43:10,326 --> 00:43:12,241 some of the Cherokee purple tomatoes, 896 00:43:12,372 --> 00:43:14,287 some sea island red peas. 897 00:43:14,417 --> 00:43:18,334 Then, for those that aren't completely vegetarian, 898 00:43:18,465 --> 00:43:21,120 we have Sapelo clams. 899 00:43:21,250 --> 00:43:24,471 Charlie Phillips actually harvests 900 00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:25,951 these clams right here. 901 00:43:26,081 --> 00:43:27,648 He's an amazing fisherman. 902 00:43:27,779 --> 00:43:30,042 You can actually name the fisherman who got the clams. 903 00:43:30,172 --> 00:43:31,391 Yes, I can name the fisherman. 904 00:43:31,521 --> 00:43:33,480 I actually can name the fisherman. 905 00:43:33,611 --> 00:43:38,050 Those traditions came with us to bring a piece of home. 906 00:43:38,180 --> 00:43:41,836 We were known to sew, literally braid, 907 00:43:41,967 --> 00:43:43,403 and bring seeds in our hair. 908 00:43:43,533 --> 00:43:46,014 It looked like an ornament. It won't look like a seed. 909 00:43:46,145 --> 00:43:47,426 So when I bring it over, I got seed, 910 00:43:47,450 --> 00:43:49,235 I got something from home. 911 00:43:49,365 --> 00:43:50,976 When I get to my new destination, 912 00:43:51,106 --> 00:43:54,240 I plant in my new home to bring a piece of home with me. 913 00:43:54,370 --> 00:43:56,982 Every time I eat it, I still remember home. 914 00:43:57,112 --> 00:44:00,159 I still remember when my mama used to make it for me 915 00:44:00,289 --> 00:44:03,249 and my mama's mama made it for her. 916 00:44:03,379 --> 00:44:06,121 When I think of your ancestor... - Mm-hmm. 917 00:44:06,252 --> 00:44:09,734 That was kidnapped, trafficked from Africa, 918 00:44:09,864 --> 00:44:13,868 the odds that his great-great- great-great-great-grandchild... 919 00:44:13,999 --> 00:44:15,522 - Mm-hmm - would be here 920 00:44:15,653 --> 00:44:18,481 celebrating the culture that came on that ship. 921 00:44:18,612 --> 00:44:19,918 It's a miracle. 922 00:44:20,048 --> 00:44:21,223 It is a miracle. 923 00:44:21,354 --> 00:44:23,965 It's impacted on the world around you. 924 00:44:24,096 --> 00:44:25,271 Definitely. 925 00:44:25,401 --> 00:44:27,273 There's not a city in the United States 926 00:44:27,403 --> 00:44:28,927 that is not trying to have 927 00:44:29,057 --> 00:44:30,377 the best Southern restaurant ever. 928 00:44:30,493 --> 00:44:31,843 And what are they serving? 929 00:44:31,973 --> 00:44:33,583 Rice and peas, you know. 930 00:44:33,714 --> 00:44:35,074 They're making biscuits, cornbread, 931 00:44:35,194 --> 00:44:37,239 they're frying gizzards, right? 932 00:44:37,370 --> 00:44:39,391 So it was like, think about all of those that things 933 00:44:39,415 --> 00:44:41,287 have been considered for so many years 934 00:44:41,417 --> 00:44:44,507 to be poor people or slave food, 935 00:44:44,638 --> 00:44:47,423 right now, everyone wants to celebrate it. 936 00:44:47,554 --> 00:44:52,690 ♪ 937 00:44:52,820 --> 00:44:55,214 I've come to Kingston, Jamaica's capital city 938 00:44:55,344 --> 00:44:57,216 to explore the connection 939 00:44:57,346 --> 00:44:59,653 between this island's history of enslavement 940 00:44:59,784 --> 00:45:03,439 and one of its greatest exports, reggae. 941 00:45:03,570 --> 00:45:11,570 [Jamaican Patois singing ] 942 00:45:18,541 --> 00:45:25,984 [Jamaican Patois singing ] 943 00:45:26,114 --> 00:45:29,117 I was born here in Jamaica. 944 00:45:29,248 --> 00:45:32,555 Right. I have history, ancestry 945 00:45:32,686 --> 00:45:37,343 of a slaved trip, right? 946 00:45:37,473 --> 00:45:41,303 And the ones who survived, came here on this rock 947 00:45:41,434 --> 00:45:45,220 and I am a product of their survival. 948 00:45:45,351 --> 00:45:49,572 There is something that's innate in our people. 949 00:45:49,703 --> 00:45:53,228 When we come together we can defeat any oppression. 950 00:45:53,359 --> 00:45:56,231 ♪ 951 00:45:56,362 --> 00:45:58,625 It's what left of the culture or the practice, 952 00:45:58,756 --> 00:46:02,281 the traditions that they are coming across. 953 00:46:02,411 --> 00:46:06,502 We as a people, we just have to pass it on to our arts. 954 00:46:06,633 --> 00:46:12,247 ♪ 955 00:46:12,378 --> 00:46:15,337 Reggae has gone to all parts of the world 956 00:46:15,468 --> 00:46:17,078 inspiring people, 957 00:46:17,209 --> 00:46:19,167 because of the very soul of the music, 958 00:46:19,298 --> 00:46:23,606 and that soul has to do with an entire history of hardship, 959 00:46:23,737 --> 00:46:26,871 of oppression, of rebellion, of enslavement. 960 00:46:27,001 --> 00:46:29,438 ♪ 961 00:46:29,569 --> 00:46:31,614 Life on the plantation was about this oppression 962 00:46:31,745 --> 00:46:33,181 of Black life. 963 00:46:33,312 --> 00:46:36,184 The culture around the plantation life 964 00:46:36,315 --> 00:46:38,360 gets translated into what became 965 00:46:38,491 --> 00:46:40,362 Jamaica's indigenous musical genres. 966 00:46:40,493 --> 00:46:42,582 ♪ 967 00:46:42,712 --> 00:46:45,628 By the time we get to the 1930s, 968 00:46:45,759 --> 00:46:50,111 people began listening to Marcus Garvey's philosophy. 969 00:46:50,242 --> 00:46:52,287 ♪ Please help me, 970 00:46:52,418 --> 00:46:55,116 ♪ Freedom Fighter Marcus Messiah Garvey ♪ 971 00:46:55,247 --> 00:46:57,162 ♪ Africa awaits her creators ♪ 972 00:46:57,292 --> 00:46:58,859 ♪ Bill with me! 973 00:46:58,990 --> 00:47:01,862 ♪ How many more need to die before we see the strategy? ♪ 974 00:47:01,993 --> 00:47:03,385 ♪ 975 00:47:03,516 --> 00:47:05,474 Marcus Garvey with his ideas 976 00:47:05,605 --> 00:47:09,348 about returning masses of people to Africa: 977 00:47:09,478 --> 00:47:12,046 That of course gets crystallized 978 00:47:12,177 --> 00:47:13,482 in the Rastafari movement. 979 00:47:13,613 --> 00:47:15,615 And they're the ones that develop reggae? 980 00:47:15,745 --> 00:47:17,356 That's right. 981 00:47:17,486 --> 00:47:19,619 Many of the lyrics in reggae songs still talk about 982 00:47:19,749 --> 00:47:22,578 the history of slavery, about returning to Africa, 983 00:47:22,709 --> 00:47:26,321 about undoing the chains of mental slavery. 984 00:47:26,452 --> 00:47:27,690 Do you think that this is a music form 985 00:47:27,714 --> 00:47:29,150 that's keeping that history alive 986 00:47:29,281 --> 00:47:32,023 in the minds of Jamaicans and the world? 987 00:47:32,153 --> 00:47:35,287 The Rastafari people 988 00:47:35,417 --> 00:47:38,638 are the memory of the Jamaican people. 989 00:47:38,768 --> 00:47:40,640 They have been the ones to consistently 990 00:47:40,770 --> 00:47:43,556 dip into that history to show us who we are, 991 00:47:43,686 --> 00:47:44,925 show us where we're coming from 992 00:47:44,949 --> 00:47:46,602 and also showing us where we're going. 993 00:47:46,733 --> 00:47:49,301 ♪ 994 00:47:49,431 --> 00:47:51,129 ♪ We need a shepherd for the sheep, ♪ 995 00:47:51,259 --> 00:47:52,652 ♪ we're gonna lead the flock. ♪ 996 00:47:52,782 --> 00:47:55,263 ♪ Wolves and leopards get defeat ♪ 997 00:47:55,394 --> 00:47:56,743 ♪ with these slingshots. 998 00:47:56,874 --> 00:48:00,616 ♪ [indistinct singing] 999 00:48:00,747 --> 00:48:04,229 ♪ United States of Africa, I like the sound of that. ♪ 1000 00:48:04,359 --> 00:48:06,231 ♪ Organized and centralized 1001 00:48:06,361 --> 00:48:08,973 ♪ modern day slavery 1002 00:48:09,103 --> 00:48:13,238 [singing] 1003 00:48:13,368 --> 00:48:16,023 ♪ Modern day slave 1004 00:48:16,154 --> 00:48:18,243 ♪ 1005 00:48:18,373 --> 00:48:21,333 ♪ Modern day slave 1006 00:48:21,463 --> 00:48:26,599 ♪ 1007 00:48:26,729 --> 00:48:28,775 The cannons and the anchor are important clues. 1008 00:48:28,906 --> 00:48:31,343 But to identify those Danish ships once and for all, 1009 00:48:31,473 --> 00:48:33,606 we need to find yellow bricks, 1010 00:48:33,736 --> 00:48:35,347 a lot of them. 1011 00:48:35,477 --> 00:48:37,392 So we're heading back out to search again. 1012 00:48:37,523 --> 00:48:39,525 ♪ 1013 00:48:39,655 --> 00:48:42,180 We have the opportunity to be with these kids 1014 00:48:42,310 --> 00:48:44,312 and to help them find their roots. 1015 00:48:44,443 --> 00:48:45,681 And that is absolutely incredible. 1016 00:48:45,705 --> 00:48:53,705 ♪ 1017 00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,763 It's a huge search area, 1018 00:49:00,894 --> 00:49:03,723 but the location of the cannons and the anchor 1019 00:49:03,853 --> 00:49:06,334 gives us hope that we're on the right track. 1020 00:49:06,465 --> 00:49:10,469 Those bricks have got to be hidden out here somewhere. 1021 00:49:27,051 --> 00:49:29,401 Through the sea grass and shifting sands, 1022 00:49:29,531 --> 00:49:30,726 Kevin felt sure he spotted something. 1023 00:49:30,750 --> 00:49:38,750 ♪ 1024 00:49:44,242 --> 00:49:52,242 ♪ 1025 00:49:59,213 --> 00:50:00,388 ♪ 1026 00:50:00,519 --> 00:50:01,975 At first glance, it was hard to notice 1027 00:50:01,999 --> 00:50:03,802 if there was anything different about the spot at all. 1028 00:50:03,826 --> 00:50:06,655 ♪ 1029 00:50:06,786 --> 00:50:13,662 But when we looked closer, there was a strange pattern. 1030 00:50:13,793 --> 00:50:16,491 In that moment, you realize that this cold case 1031 00:50:16,622 --> 00:50:18,754 that has been lying on the bottom of the ocean 1032 00:50:18,885 --> 00:50:21,670 for hundreds of years is now right in front 1033 00:50:21,801 --> 00:50:23,629 of you about to be solved and you're there. 1034 00:50:23,759 --> 00:50:27,154 To see that, to be in that moment, 1035 00:50:27,285 --> 00:50:30,201 that's a historical moment. 1036 00:50:30,331 --> 00:50:31,680 This huge hill of seabed 1037 00:50:31,811 --> 00:50:34,248 is actually a huge pile of bricks. 1038 00:50:34,379 --> 00:50:37,034 According to the ship's manifest, 1039 00:50:37,164 --> 00:50:39,427 there should be 40,000 of them down here. 1040 00:50:39,558 --> 00:50:47,558 ♪ 1041 00:50:49,437 --> 00:50:50,893 Andreas has been able to get permission 1042 00:50:50,917 --> 00:50:53,093 to bring up one of the bricks for testing. 1043 00:50:53,224 --> 00:51:01,224 ♪ 1044 00:51:07,455 --> 00:51:09,544 I have it. Got it here. 1045 00:51:09,675 --> 00:51:11,503 ♪ 1046 00:51:11,633 --> 00:51:12,678 Whoo. 1047 00:51:12,808 --> 00:51:14,462 - Oh, my God. - Whoo. 1048 00:51:14,593 --> 00:51:16,334 So now they have an opportunity 1049 00:51:16,464 --> 00:51:19,293 to rediscover their ties to their past 1050 00:51:19,424 --> 00:51:21,730 and rediscover their contact 1051 00:51:21,861 --> 00:51:24,211 or the connection to the enslaved Africans 1052 00:51:24,342 --> 00:51:25,212 who were here. 1053 00:51:25,343 --> 00:51:27,388 [all cheering] 1054 00:51:27,519 --> 00:51:32,263 ♪ 1055 00:51:32,393 --> 00:51:33,393 This is about Cahuita. 1056 00:51:33,438 --> 00:51:34,719 This is about the people of Cahuita. 1057 00:51:34,743 --> 00:51:35,875 This is about the bravery. 1058 00:51:36,005 --> 00:51:37,616 This is about the people who are here 1059 00:51:37,746 --> 00:51:40,227 to find out the truth about exactly who they are as a people 1060 00:51:40,358 --> 00:51:42,534 and where they came from 1061 00:51:42,664 --> 00:51:44,492 and how Africans were very much a part 1062 00:51:44,623 --> 00:51:45,643 of creating this community. 1063 00:51:45,667 --> 00:51:47,626 ♪ 1064 00:51:47,650 --> 00:51:49,650 >>>>oakislandtk<<<<< www.opensubtitles.org 77753

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