Do you know about the Newton Slave Burial Ground? Tune in as historian Kevin Farmer and Faith Callender take us to the Newton Slave Burial Ground - the only known excavated communal slave burial ground within a plantation setting in the western hemisphere. While telling the history of the brutal plantation system and life for enslaved men and women, it also tells us more about our rich culture and the African influences that have been handed down from to us, from the way we talk, move and dress

Actor David Harewood was prepared for some brutal truths about slavery on the former British colony of Barbados. But nothing could prepare him for the horrific details of the “Barbados Slave Code.” The brutal laws would form the basis for the treatment of enslaved peoples in America. A new episode of One Thousand Days of Slavery airs this Sunday at 8 PM. #1000YearsofSlavery | Smithsonian Channel