The magazine’s cover story was written by National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts, whose research on the transatlantic slave trade inspired her to investigate her own roots BHM
explores the complex history of the global slave trade and the stories of the estimated 12.5 million Africans forced to make the Middle Passage.Roberts seeks signs not just of those captives who arrived on the Americas’ shores—but also of the 1.8 million people who perished along the way from inhumane conditions in cargo holds or by drowning in shipwrecks.
For Roberts and many other Americans whose ancestors were enslaved, deep dives into the past could provide both new information on the slave trade and a new perspective: Who gets to tell the story matters—in terms of which facts are included, what’s emphasized, what’s glossed over. And history, as most of us have read it over the years, largely has been shaped by an unrepresentative group of narrators.
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