At Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Georgia, a group of enslaved Igbo captives is remembered for having taken control of the ship that carried them and walking into the tidal marsh rather than accept slavery. Accounts combine documentary records, oral tradition and legend, and the exact details are debated, but Igbo Landing endures as one of the most powerful symbols of resistance in African American memory.
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Igbo Landing, 1803
A story of captives who walked into the water in 1803.
