The TV series is an adaptation of Esi Edugyan's 19th century odyssey, which follows the life of George Washington Black, an enslaved boy who flees the plantation where he was born at 11 years old.

The trailer gives a more expansive look at this series, which breathes new life into tales about Black people in the 1800s. Kinglsey plays the adult version of Black, with Eddie Karanja playing Black as a child enslaved in Barbados. His keen intellect, as well as witnessing a gruesome tragedy, is what launches his story to Halifax and beyond.