Igbo Landing
Historic site at Dunbar Creek, Georgia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Igbo Landing (also called Ibo Landing, Ebo Landing, or Ebos Landing) is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. It was the setting of a mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who had taken control of the slave ship they were on, and refused to submit to slavery in the United States. The event's moral value as a story of resistance towards slavery has symbolic importance in African American folklore as the flying Africans legend, and in literary history.
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Igbo Landing | |
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Location | Dunbar Creek, St. Simons Island in Glynn County, Georgia, United States |
Coordinates | 31°11′14″N 81°23′14″W |
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Date | May 1803 (1803-05) |
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Participants | A group of 75 Igbo enslaved people [1] |
Outcome | Mass suicide in opposition to slavery in the United States. Notable influence on African American folklore and literature |
Deaths | 13 bodies of drowned enslaved people were recovered[1] and 3 white overseers drowned[2] but actual numbers of deaths uncertain |
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