February 26th 2007, Channel 4, 9pm.It's only two hundred years since Britain abolished its slave trade and the legacy of slavery is still a live issue in Britain's Afro-Caribbean communities. To commemorate the anniversary of abolition, this film follows a young, black Londoner called David Monteith as he attempts to discover just how much his family history and his contemporary identity are a product of the British slave trade. Unlike virtually all Afro-Caribbean Britons, David is able to trace his family history right back to his slave ancestor, Archibald Monteith. Archibald, baptised 'Monteith' after his Scottish owners, was among the last slaves taken from Africa to Jamaica.Before the trade was abolished, he also left a memoir of his life. This memoir, one of very few first hand accounts dictated by slaves, gives his great, great, great grandson David a chance to understand the experience of life as a slave, and more importantly, to trace his roots back to his country of origin, Nigeria. Once there, David confronts some uncomfortable and unexpected discoveries about the nature of the slave trade and about Archibald himself.The programme is directed by Julia Harrington and produced by Paul Kerr.Please note: The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed on March 25th 1807. (This was NOT the abolition of slavery itself which was not ended until 1838)