The Igbo Landing
Igbo landing also known as Ebo landing is a history of resistance of enslavement by the Igbo warriors at Durban creek on Saint Simons Island, Georgia in the United States of America. In May 1803, a ship load of captive West Africans in shackles embarked on a perilous Trans-Saharan slave trade journey packed like sardines in a cramped ship with little or no space to move around.
This group of 75 chained enslaved men were considered to be Igbo people bought by agents of John Couper and Thomas Spalding who are slave masters. The men were bought for $100 each for forced labour on their plantation on St. Simons Island. Having survived the middle passage, on arriving St. Simons Island, these group of men rose up in rebellion against the agents, threw them overboard, jumped into the river and were drown.
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