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PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK THIESSEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
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Just weeks ago, Clotilda was labeled the most intact slave wreck ever discovered. (Pictured above, nails, spikes and bolts recovered from the ship.) Clotilda: Last American Slave Ship airs at 10 eastern (9 central) tonight on National Geographic TV and begins streaming on Hulu tomorrow. Tara’s journey of discovery and healing also is fabulously detailed in a six-part Nat Geo podcast, Into the Depths.
The Atlantic Ocean is “churning with the spirits of folks whose names we may never know. Souls who have never been acknowledged or mourned. Dreamers, poets, artists, thinkers, scientists, farmers. More than just cargo or bodies packed in a hold. More than faceless statistics. More than people bound for enslavement,” Tara writes.
“And their day of reckoning is at hand. It is time for their stories to rise from the depths, to be told in their fullness, in their wonder—and with love, with honor, with respect. Finally helping heal a wound that has festered for far too long. That is the dream. That is the promise. That is the possibility of this work, of this watery resurrection.”
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