Voyage of DISCOVERY

A young genius tries to escape his brutal life on a slave plantation

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DISNEY+Washington Black NEW Available: Wednesday 23 July Genre: Drama Season: 1 Episodes: 8

The globetrotting journey of a gifted young boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation is told in Disney+'s ambitious period drama Washington Black, which follows the youngster as he battles persecution and pursues liberty against the odds.

We first meet George Washington ‘Wash’ Black as a 19-year-old in 1837 when he is living incognito in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and developing a revolutionary flying machine, which he plans to exhibit in London.

However, the arrival of bounty hunters brandishing a ‘Wanted’ poster with an image of his younger self brings Wash face to face with his brutal childhood...