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INTO THE DEPTHS

Millions of Africans were trafficked into slavery, forced aboard ships that made their way across the Atlantic—and an estimated 1.8 million of them died along the way.

Out of tens of thousands of voyages, about a thousand ships likely sank, burying countless lives, names, and stories in the depths of the ocean. Join National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts and a group of Black scuba divers on a historic journey to document some of those shipwrecks and recover the lost stories of the slave trade in the six-part podcast Into the Depths, the cover story of our March issue of National Geographic magazine, and the documentary Clotilda: The Last American Slave Ship now streaming on Disney+.

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The search for lost slave ships led this diver on an extraordinary journey

Explorer Tara Roberts took up diving to tell the stories of the transatlantic slave trade. Along the way, she connected with her family’s inspiring past.

America’s last slave ship is more intact than anyone thought

Archaeologists studying the Clotilda say the shipwreck may contain a wealth of well-preserved artifacts, from barrels of food to human DNA.

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"The Atlantic Ocean is full of forgotten people, 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 Roberts, National Geographic Explorer

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts has spent the past few years following a group of Black scuba divers, historians, and archaeologists as they search for and help document slave trade shipwrecks around the world.

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Clotilda: The Last American Slave Ship - Now on Disney+

Clotilda: The Last American Slave Ship tells the story of the most intact slave shipwreck found to date and the only one for which we know the full story of the voyage, the passengers, and their descendants. Streaming now on Disney+ and Hulu.

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