Copper Premieres August 19th on BBC America

This Sunday, August 19th, the historical crime drama Copper premieres on BBC America at 10 PM (ET/PT).

Tom Weston-Jones stars as Kevin Corcoran, an Irish-American former boxer turned cop, returns from the Civil War to find his wife missing and his daughter dead. Corcoran seeks justice for the powerless in the notorious immigrant neighborhood of Five Points. Bonded by battle to two Civil War compatriots — Robert Morehouse (Kyle Schmid), the wayward son of a wealthy industrialist, and Matthew Freeman (Ato Essandoh), an African-American physician who secretly assists the forensic investigations — Corcoran is thrust into the contrasting worlds of elegant and corrupt Fifth Avenue, and the emerging black community in Northern Manhattan. The three men share a secret from the battlefield that inextricably links their lives forever.

In the opening episode, titled "Surviving Death", with New York City still recovering from the Draft Riots of 1863, Detective Kevin Corcoran finds himself investigating the murder of a young Five Points girl that hits uncomfortably close to home.

Watch a sneak peek of the premiere below.