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Story Of The "Igbo Landing" Of 1803.

An event that Igbo slaves choose to drown in the ocean with their freedom than become another man’s property for the rest of their lives !

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In May 1803, around 75 Igbo slaves who were being transported by sea revolted by capsizing their ship and drowned themselves while singing in Igbo, a song that translates to "the water spirit brought us. The water spirit will take us home". (Mmụọ mmiri du anyi bịa, mmụọ mmiri ga-edu anyi laa).

Igbo Landing is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people took place when Igbo captives from what is now Nigeria were taken to the Georgia coast. In May 1803, the Igbo and other West African captives arrived in Savannah Georgia, on the slave ship, the Wanderer. They were purchased for an average of $100 each by slave merchants

John Couper and Thomas Spalding for forced labor on their plantations in Simons Island. The chained slaves were packed under deck of a coastal vessel, the York, which would take them to St. Simons Island. During the voyage, around 75 Igbo slaves rose in rebellion, took control of the ship, drowned their captors, and in the process caused the grounding of the ship in Dunbar Creek. They thereby accepted the protection of their god (Chukwu) & death over the alternative of enslavement.
The sequence of actual events is unclear, as most of the historical incidence was passed down by oral tradition.
A common version credited to Roswell King, a white overseer on the nearby Pierce Butler plantation is that the slaves, once ashore, walked into the creek is unison, singing and chanting in Igbo under the leadership of someone who seemed to be like a high priest among them.
This mutiny has been referred to in some quarters as the first major freedom march in America's history.
The event has recently been incorporated into the history of coastal Georgia schools in America.

Beyonce Knowles have also depicted and paid homage to the Igbo Landing in her work "Love Drought". Blank Panther movie refers to this event. Etc.

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Dear Genius Quest who is Thor ?

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Built in 280 BC, the Colossus of Rhodes is one of the most iconic ancient structures in the world. It was a massive statue of the Greek deity of the sun, Helios, that stood over 30 meters tall.

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Legend has it that the face and body of the statue were so lifelike that the sculptor Phidias had to add a veil to cover the face of the god to prevent people from believing it was a living being.

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