The trailer gives a more expansive look at this series, which breathes new life into tales about Black people in the 1800s. Kinglsey plays the adult version of Black, with Eddie Karanja playing Black as a child enslaved in Barbados. His keen intellect, as well as witnessing a gruesome tragedy, is what launches his story to Halifax and beyond.

Sterling K. Brown is deepening his roots at Hulu. After starring in the iconic ABC series "This Is Us" (and later reteaming with creator Dan Fogelman for "Paradise"), the Emmy winner and Oscar nominee is back at the streamer with the novel adaptation of "Washington Black.

Hulu’s new series, Washington Black, is nothing short of an exciting voyage of a young man and his exceptional mind and passion for art, with which he wants to change the world.