02422cam a2200325 i 4500 1906841052 TxAuBib 20250225120000.0 241113s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024017980 9781426223754 HRD 30.00 1426223757 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Roberts, Tara Karr, author. Written in the waters [BOOK] : a memoir of history, home, and belonging / Tara Roberts. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2025] 395 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Descent -- Bottom time -- Ascent. "When Tara Roberts first caught sight of a photograph at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History depicting the underwater archaeology group Diving With a Purpose, it called out to her. Here were Black women and men strapping on masks, fins, and tanks to explore Atlantic Ocean waters along the coastlines of Africa, North America, and Central America, seeking the wrecks of slave ships long lost in time. Inspired, Roberts joined them—and started on a path of discovery more challenging and personal than she could ever have imagined. In this lush and lyrical memoir, she tells a story of exploration and reckoning that takes her from her home in Washington, DC, to an exotic array of locales: Thailand and Sri Lanka, Mozambique, South Africa, Senegal, Benin, Costa Rica, and St. Croix. The journey connects her with other divers, scholars, and archaeologists, offering a unique way of understanding the 12.5 million souls carried away from their African homeland to enslavement on other continents. But for Roberts, the journey is also intensely personal. Inspired by the descendants of those who lost their lives during the Middle Passage, she decides to plumb her own family history and life as a Black woman to help make sense of her own identity.". 20250225. Roberts, Tara. African American women journalists Biography. Transatlantic slave trade Research. Underwater archaeology United States. Community archaeology United States. Autobiographies.