(BPRW) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVES INTO THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE WITH NEW PODCAST, INTO THE DEPTHS, LAUNCHING JAN. 27 | Press releases

(BPRW) Nationwide GEOGRAPHIC DIVES INTO THE UNTOLD Historical past OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE WITH NEW PODCAST, INTO THE DEPTHS, LAUNCHING JAN. 27

(Black PR Wire) Washington, DC – In advance of Black Heritage Thirty day period, Nationwide Geographic is launching a potent new podcast, INTO THE DEPTHS, on Jan. 27, 2022, that uncovers the deep historical past of the transatlantic slave trade as it follows a team of Black divers who are focused to obtaining and assisting to document slave shipwrecks. The podcast sequence trailer is now obtainable on Apple Podcasts and where ever podcasts are located, as well as at http://natgeo.com/intothedepths. The podcast will also be accompanied by a address story in the March problem of National Geographic magazine, offered on the web on Feb. 7, and a National Geographic documentary specific, CLOTILDA: Final AMERICAN SLAVE SHIP, premiering Monday, Feb. 7, 10/9c on National Geographic and offered to stream future day on Hulu.

The 6-section podcast series, funded in portion by the Nationwide Geographic Society, highlights the journey of National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts (@curvypath_tara on Instagram), who quit her work and still left her daily life behind to abide by in the footsteps of Diving With a Function, a group of Black divers who traverse the globe in look for of extensive-missing slave shipwrecks and the reality of the background that accompanies them. The podcast follows Roberts from Florida to Costa Rica, and from the continent of Africa back again to Roberts’ spouse and children dwelling in Edenton, North Carolina, in which the journey promptly turns individual for her.

“What I was suffering from was this sense of longing. I believe this is a exceptional thing for African Us residents. Where is house for us?” she asks in the fourth episode of the sequence. The concern prospects her on this existence-transforming journey. 

“INTO THE DEPTHS is a profound and personalized exploration of identification and heritage as instructed via the lens of Black experts and storytellers keen to deepen our comprehending of American background,” says Davar Ardalan, executive producer of Audio for Countrywide Geographic.

The podcast, which will fall from Jan. 27 to March 3, attributes more than 40 voices, which includes underwater divers and archaeologists – descendants of all those brought in excess of on the ships, historians, and a wide range of gurus whom Roberts performs with to uncover these tales. Ken Stewart, diver and co-founder of Diving With a Intent, is featured in the next episode as Roberts dives into the story of the Spanish pirate ship, the Guerrero, which wrecked off the coast of Florida in 1827. In the meantime, the city of Africatown, Alabama, designed up of the immediate descendants of Africans introduced to The united states on the slave ship Clotilda, make an look in episode 6. The journey brings Roberts to a deeply painful and particular crossroads relating to her id as a Black American as she searches for a perception of belonging. You can listen on Apple Podcasts and where ever podcasts are located.

“As I received to know the divers, the ships they had uncovered, the tales of all those who had been captured, I realized this was a way to come to grips with those people 400 several years, with this traumatic record [of much of the Black population in the United States],” Roberts explains in the opening of the to start with episode. “Through these ships, we could deliver lost stories up from the depths and again into collective memory.”

The podcast sequence was manufactured and directed by Francesca Panetta with Countrywide Geographic’s Carla Wills as executive editor and producers Mike Olcott and Bianca Martin. 

“As a Black journalist, it is been uplifting to edit and create this podcast with each other with Black ladies storytellers who have introduced tremendous insights and creativeness to this groundbreaking sequence, together with Tara as effectively as Nationwide Geographic Explorer and poet Alyea Pierce, sound designer Alexis Adimora, and producer Bianca Martin,” Wills says. 

Nationwide Geographic is also encouraging listeners to pay attention with their crews and host their possess COVID-19-safe and sound listening parties by offering a downloadable listening social gathering toolkit, readily available at natgeo.com/intothedepths. The toolkit will include an episode tutorial, discussion information, social sharing graphic, and additional, as very well as useful data about how to participate in the discussion on the web making use of #intothedepths.

In addition to the podcast sequence, Roberts will be featured on the protect of the March concern of Nationwide Geographic journal, which will be printed online at natgeo.com/intothedepths on Feb. 7. The element will profile Roberts’ journey as she travels with the divers to look into the shed stories of the slave trade – the two to develop the historic record and to honor the 1.8 million unsung souls who perished through the middle passage.

Countrywide Geographic will also premiere a documentary distinctive, CLOTILDA: Past AMERICAN SLAVE SHIP, about the most intact slave shipwreck located to date and the only 1 for which we know the full tale of the voyage, the passengers and their descendants. In July 1860, on a bet, the schooner Clotilda carried 110 kidnapped Africans to slavery in Alabama. The traffickers tried to cover their crime by burning and sinking the ship, but now, for the to start with time due to the fact Clotilda arrived in America, maritime archaeologists enter the wreck. In a hazardous dive, they check out the actual cargo keep and obtain physical proof of the crime the slave traders tried using so tough to cover. Descendants of the travellers share how their ancestors turned a cruel tragedy into an uplifting tale of bravery and resilience. 

The distinctive options experts contain the following:

• Sylviane Diouf, historian and creator of “Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Tale of the Very last Africans Brought to America”
• Natalie S. Robertson, historian and creator of “The Slave Shop Clotilda and the Generating of Africatown, USA” 
• Mary Elliott, curator of American slavery, Countrywide Museum of African American Background and Culture
• James Delgado, maritime archaeologist, Research Inc.
• Stacye Hathorn, Alabama State archaeologist, Alabama Historical Commission
• Joseph Grinnan, maritime archaeologist/diver, Look for, Inc. 
• Kamau Sadiki, lead teacher, Diving With a Purpose

CLOTILDA: Past AMERICAN SLAVE SHIP is developed by Nationwide Geographic Studios, with producer/director Lisa Feit, senior affiliate producer Alex Brady, senior direct editor Joe Bridgers, editor Liv Gwynn and executive producer Chad Cohen. Michael Cooke is the director of pictures. For National Geographic, Courteney Monroe is president, Content.