Only watched 20 minutes of the first episode. Weak acting, clichรฉs and messes with the original book. It leads us to believe that people of black race rode around in carriages, wore fine clothes and nobody batted an eyelid. This does a deservice to black people, in an effort I feel to make us feel less remice for the truth of history, which treated black people in the most appalling manner as victims of the slave trade.