Tonight on PBS, in celebration of Black History month, Mos Def is narrating Prince Among Slaves.

Born a prince, Ibrahima Abdul Rahman was captured by African tribal rivals and sold into slavery at age 26. It was 1788, and the United States’ expanding plantation system had made the market exceedingly lucrative. Even as Abdul Rahman had been raised to lead men—he was commanding some 2,000 of them at the time he was ambushed—he found himself shackled and loaded onto a ship, the Africa, en route from Timbuktu to a “new world.”

See the trailer below, check out the official website and be sure to watch it tonight on PBS at 10 p.m. EST.