Summary Professor Gregory Parton's team digs up manacles and mutilated corpses with the wreck of the aristocratic Carr family's 18th century ship Somerset near a Bristol channel bridge. It seems a beached 'tringular trade' slaver, which stirs modern political commotion, just now Afro-American presidential candidate senator Joy is visiting England. But DNA proves the bodies aren't slaves, Admiralty records the ship was falsely reported destroyed in Northern America. More research unearths a long-covered story involving Oban's Jamaican Maroons and George Washington. It's political dynamite, and violence follows.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Adrian Lester Michael Maloney Hugh Bonneville Julie Graham
Genres : Adventure Mystery Drama History
Release date : Jul 14, 2008
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Filming locations : Chavenage House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Mammoth Screen Monastic Productions
Summary Professor Gregory Parton's team digs up manacles and mutilated corpses with the wreck of the aristocratic Carr family's 18th century ship Somerset near a Bristol channel bridge. It seems a beached 'tringular trade' slaver, which stirs modern political commotion, just now Afro-American presidential candidate senator Joy is visiting England. But DNA proves the bodies aren't slaves, Admiralty records the ship was falsely reported destroyed in Northern America. More research unearths a long-covered story involving Oban's Jamaican Maroons and George Washington. It's political dynamite, and violence follows.
Genres : Adventure Mystery Drama History
Release date : Jul 14, 2008
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Filming locations : Chavenage House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Mammoth Screen Monastic Productions
