(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) Countrywide GEOGRAPHIC DIVES INTO THE UNTOLD Record OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE WITH NEW PODCAST, INTO THE DEPTHS, LAUNCHING JAN. 27

(Black PR Wire) Washington, DC – Forward of Black Record Month, Countrywide Geographic is launching a powerful new podcast, INTO THE DEPTHS, on Jan. 27, 2022, that uncovers the deep background of the transatlantic slave trade as it follows a group of Black divers who are dedicated to finding and assisting to document slave shipwrecks. The podcast sequence trailer is now out there on Apple Podcasts and where ever podcasts are located, as very well as at http://natgeo.com/intothedepths. The podcast will also be accompanied by a include tale in the March issue of Countrywide Geographic magazine, out there online on Feb. 7, and a Countrywide Geographic documentary special, CLOTILDA: Last AMERICAN SLAVE SHIP, premiering Monday, Feb. 7, ten/9c on Countrywide Geographic and out there to stream next working day on Hulu.

The 6-part podcast sequence, funded in part by the Countrywide Geographic Culture, highlights the journey of Countrywide Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts (@curvypath_tara on Instagram), who quit her task and remaining her everyday living driving to adhere to in the footsteps of Diving With a Purpose, a group of Black divers who traverse the globe in search of lengthy-shed slave shipwrecks and the truth of the background that accompanies them. The podcast follows Roberts from Florida to Costa Rica, and from the continent of Africa back to Roberts’ loved ones property in Edenton, North Carolina, in which the journey promptly turns individual for her.

“What I was encountering was this sense of longing. I feel this is a exceptional factor for African Us citizens. In which is property for us?” she asks in the fourth episode of the sequence. The query sales opportunities her on this everyday living-changing journey. 

“INTO THE DEPTHS is a profound and individual exploration of identification and background as instructed by way of the lens of Black scientists and storytellers keen to deepen our being familiar with of American background,” says Davar Ardalan, executive producer of Audio for Countrywide Geographic.

The podcast, which will fall from Jan. 27 to March three, features over forty voices, together with underwater divers and archaeologists – descendants of those people brought over on the ships, historians, and a assortment of gurus whom Roberts performs with to uncover these tales. Ken Stewart, diver and co-founder of Diving With a Purpose, is featured in the second episode as Roberts dives into the tale of the Spanish pirate ship, the Guerrero, which wrecked off the coast of Florida in 1827. In the meantime, the city of Africatown, Alabama, made up of the direct descendants of Africans brought to The united states on the slave ship Clotilda, make an overall look in episode 6. The journey brings Roberts to a deeply painful and individual crossroads regarding her identification as a Black American as she searches for a sense of belonging. You can hear on Apple Podcasts and where ever podcasts are located.

“As I acquired to know the divers, the ships they experienced located, the tales of those people who experienced been captured, I realized this was a way to occur to grips with those people 400 many years, with this traumatic background [of substantially of the Black population in the United States],” Roberts describes in the opening of the initial episode. “Through these ships, we could deliver shed tales up from the depths and back into collective memory.”

The podcast sequence was created 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 generate this podcast with each other with Black females storytellers who have brought great insights and creativeness to this groundbreaking sequence, together with Tara as very well as Countrywide Geographic Explorer and poet Alyea Pierce, seem designer Alexis Adimora, and producer Bianca Martin,” Wills says. 

Countrywide Geographic is also encouraging listeners to hear with their crews and host their own COVID-19-safe listening get-togethers by providing a downloadable listening celebration toolkit, out there at natgeo.com/intothedepths. The toolkit will incorporate an episode guidebook, discussion guidebook, social sharing graphic, and a lot more, as very well as handy details pertaining to how to participate in the dialogue online making use of #intothedepths.

In addition to the podcast sequence, Roberts will be featured on the include of the March issue of Countrywide Geographic magazine, which will be published online at natgeo.com/intothedepths on Feb. 7. The attribute will profile Roberts’ journey as she travels with the divers to investigate the shed tales of the slave trade – each to expand the historical report and to honor the 1.8 million unsung souls who perished for the duration of the center passage.

Countrywide Geographic will also premiere a documentary special, CLOTILDA: Last AMERICAN SLAVE SHIP, about the most intact slave shipwreck located to day and the only one particular for which we know the full tale of the voyage, the travellers and their descendants. In July 1860, on a wager, the schooner Clotilda carried a hundred and ten kidnapped Africans to slavery in Alabama. The traffickers experimented with to cover their crime by burning and sinking the ship, but now, for the initial time because Clotilda arrived in The united states, maritime archaeologists enter the wreck. In a unsafe dive, they discover the actual cargo keep and discover physical proof of the crime the slave traders experimented with so really hard to cover. Descendants of the travellers share how their ancestors turned a cruel tragedy into an uplifting tale of braveness and resilience. 

The special features gurus incorporate the next:

• Sylviane Diouf, historian and author of “Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America”
• Natalie S. Robertson, historian and author of “The Slave Store Clotilda and the Creating of Africatown, USA” 
• Mary Elliott, curator of American slavery, Countrywide Museum of African American Record and Society
• James Delgado, maritime archaeologist, Research Inc.
• Stacye Hathorn, Alabama Point out archaeologist, Alabama Historic Commission
• Joseph Grinnan, maritime archaeologist/diver, Research, Inc. 
• Kamau Sadiki, guide instructor, Diving With a Purpose

CLOTILDA: Last AMERICAN SLAVE SHIP is created by Countrywide Geographic Studios, with producer/director Lisa Feit, senior associate producer Alex Brady, senior guide editor Joe Bridgers, editor Liv Gwynn and executive producer Chad Cohen. Michael Cooke is the director of images. For Countrywide Geographic, Courteney Monroe is president, Content material.