Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery

Someday You Could Be… A Producer Like Nat Geo’s Carla Wills

By Samir Iydroose, age 11

Formerly a senior news producer at Democracy Now!, Carla Wills is the manager of audio production at National Geographic and the executive editor of the Into the Depths podcast. Into the Depths follows a team of Black researchers and divers as they discover and explore many of the thousands of shipwrecks from the transatlantic slave trade.

After Slavery Separated Families, People Went In Search of Lost Loved Ones

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By Nylu Bridges Bernshtayn, age 13 Slavery began in what is now the United States in 1619 and ended in 1865 when the thirteenth amendment was ratified. During that period, families were torn apart and family members were sold into slavery. “About one-third of enslaved children in the upper South experienced separation either by …

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Someday You Could Be… A Producer Like Nat Geo’s Carla Wills

After Slavery Separated Families, People Went In Search of Lost Loved Ones

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