Mos Def

Presents the second season of the HBO series "Def Poetry," featuring original material performed by contemporary urban poets and well-known music/comedy artists. Contains adult language.

Presents season six of HBO's "Def Poetry" hosted by Mos Def, featuring performances of original material by established, as well as up-and-coming spoken word poets, musicians, and comedians.

In 1788, a slave ship sailed from the Gambia River with hundreds of men, women and children bound in chains. Eight months later, a handful of survivors were sold in Natchez, Mississippi. One of them made an astonishing claim: he was a prince of an African kingdom larger and more developed than the newly formed United States. The true story of an African prince who endured the humiliation of slavery without losing his dignity or hope of freedom.