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Writer and National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts aims to put women and people of color in the center of the story, encouraging audiences to imagine and experience narratives more powerfully. At Storytellers Summit, she shared her current project: following black scuba divers, historians, and archaeologists as they search for and document slave-trade shipwrecks.
Meet a group of vibrant scuba divers determined to find, document and positively identify slave shipwrecks.
From the Education Resource Library! Storyteller and National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts follows a team on a quest to document and identify sunken slave shipwrecks. Led by African American archival researchers, marine archaeologists, and expert scuba divers, the team at Diving with a Purpose connects maritime archaeology with conservation to tell the stories of their ancestors.
On the bottom of the world’s oceans lie historic treasures—the lost wrecks of ships that carried enslaved people from Africa to the Americas. Only a handful have been identified so far, but National Geographic explorer and Storytelling Fellow Tara Roberts is documenting the efforts of Black scuba divers and archaeologists to find more, hoping to finally bring their stories to light.
Explorer Tara Roberts is a storyteller on a mission to find and document shipwrecks. But she isn’t searching for pirate treasure: instead she’s hoping to find and understand the wreckage from sunken slave ships. Her work humanizes the story of the slave trade and brings important stories back to the surface for us. This event is recommended for ages 4-8 and was streamed live on Monday, 2/22/2021 at 11 AM Eastern Time.
Meet Explorer Tara Roberts, a storyteller on a mission to find, document, and share the stories of the wrecked ships that transported captive Africans across the Atlantic Ocean for the slave trade. Watch to learn how they are scuba diving into history and bringing important memories back to the surface! Dive deeper with this collection of resources, which includes a listening guide!
Tara Roberts joins the 2022 College of the Atlantic Summer Institute: Our One and Only Ocean.
If you're in the market for a new podcast, you'll want to check out "Into the Depths" from our partners at National Geographic. The six-part podcast premiering Thursday follows a team of scuba divers in search of undiscovered shipwrecks from the transatlantic slave trade. https://abc7ne.ws/3r7DIQT
ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with Tara Roberts on her mission to find wreckage from sunken slave ships, chronicled on her new National Geographic podcast “Into the Depths.”
Robin Roberts talked with the team behind “Into the Depths," the National Geographic podcast highlighting an undersea excavation of wrecked slave ships.
National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts has spent the last four years following Diving With a Purpose, a team of Black scuba divers that search for the wrecks of slave ships that carried captive men, women, and children during the Middle Passage. The expeditions seek not only to honor and humanize the forgotten victims of the African slave trade, but also to bring their lost voices up from the depths and back into collective human memory.
