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Untersharführer Ludwig Herckel (Leone Frisa), devoted and patriotic soldier of the important 1 Division SS Leibstandarte, after having fought in different fronts, will face the worst …

Untersharführer Ludwig Herckel (Leone Frisa), devoted and patriotic soldier of the important 1^ Division SS Leibstandarte, after having fought in different fronts, will face the worst …

Filmed across three continents, it demonstrates the many and intricate ways in which Scotland and the Scots were embroiled in the trade. Scots were plantation and slave owners, merchants, ship owners and crew, surgeons, investors and bookkeepers. The programmes also shows the legacies of Scotland's role - how money made funded agricultural and industrial progress, shaped a huge proportion of the nation's built environment, and the influence of the slave trade on the lives of people of colour in Scotland today.

This documentary traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930's a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and in the 1990s scholars Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discovered that the song was still remembered in a remote village in Sierra Leone.