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Why the storyteller matters as much as the story itself

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts dives into shipwrecks to recover the histories of African captives in the transatlantic slave trade.

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What inspired Tara Roberts to go into the depths

In her mission to document the wrecks, Tara Roberts became the first Black female Explorer to be featured on the National Geographic cover.

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