The Point of No Return

A line of shackled figures is marched into the shallows toward a waiting canoe, driven on by armed captors under a burning sunset sky, as a village of thatched huts looks on. Ikalu Uche Karis confronts the transatlantic slave trade directly, naming the coastal departure points remembered today as 'points of no return' -- where countless West Africans saw their homeland for the last time.