Join to learn how Tara dives into history to bring stories about sunken slave ships back to the surface.
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Explorer Tara Roberts is a storyteller on a mission to find, document, and share the stories of the wrecked ships that transported captive Africans across the Atlantic Ocean during the transatlantic slave trade. Join to learn how Tara dives into history, brings important stories back to the surface, and shares them with the world.
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