A 1930 post card showing moonlight on Dunbar River, Glynn Haven, St. Simons Island, Georgia
Date
May 1803 (1803-05)
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
Part of a series on
North American slave revolts
Attack and capture of the Crête-à-Pierrot (Combat et prise de la Crête-à-Pierrot, March 1802) in the Haitian Revolution by Auguste Raffet, engraving by Ernest Hébert
Context
Atlantic slave trade
Maroons
Slavery among indigenous peoples
Slavery in Canada
Cuba
Haiti
Latin America
Bahamas
New France
New Spain
British and French Caribbean
British Virgin Islands
United States
colonial US
Before 1700
1521 Santo Domingo Slave Revolt
(Santo Domingo)
1526 San Miguel de Gualdape
(Spanish Florida, victorious)
1548–1558, 1579–1582 Bayano Wars
(Real Audiencia of Panama, New Spain, suppressed)
c. 1570 Gaspar Yanga's Revolt
(Veracruz, New Spain, victorious)
1601 Acaxee Rebellion
(New Spain, suppressed)
1616 Tepehuán Revolt
(New Spain, suppressed)
1680 Pueblo Revolt
(Santa Fe de Nuevo México, New Spain, victorious)
18th century
1712 New York Slave Revolt
(British Province of New York, suppressed)
1730 First Maroon War
(British Jamaica, victorious)
1730 Chesapeake rebellion
(British Chesapeake Colonies, suppressed)
1731 Samba rebellion
(Louisiana, New France, suppressed)
1733 St. John Slave Revolt
(Danish Saint John, suppressed)
1739 Stono Rebellion
(British Province of South Carolina, suppressed)
1741 New York Conspiracy
(British Province of New York, suppressed)
1760–61 Tacky's Revolt
(British Jamaica, suppressed)
1768 Montserrat slave rebellion
(British Montserrat, suppressed)
1787 Abaco Slave Revolt
(British Bahamas, suppressed)
1791 Mina Conspiracy
(Louisiana, New Spain, suppressed)
1795 Pointe Coupée Conspiracy
(Louisiana, New Spain, suppressed)
1795 Curaçao Slave Revolt of 1795
(Dutch Curaçao, suppressed)
1791–1804 Haitian Revolution
(French Saint-Domingue, victorious)
19th century
1800 Gabriel's Rebellion
(Virginia, suppressed)
1803 Igbo Landing
(St. Simons Island, Georgia, victorious)
1805 Chatham Manor
(Virginia, suppressed)
1811 German Coast Uprising
(Territory of Orleans, suppressed)
1811 Aponte conspiracy
(Spanish Cuba, suppressed)
1815 George Boxley
(Virginia, suppressed)
1816 Bussa's Rebellion
(British Barbados, suppressed)
1822 Vesey Plot
(South Carolina, suppressed)
1825 Great African Slave Revolt
(Cuba, suppressed)
1831 Nat Turner's rebellion
(Virginia, suppressed)
1831–32 Baptist War
(British Jamaica, suppressed)
1839 Amistad, ship rebellion
(off the Cuban coast, victorious)
1841 Creole case, ship rebellion
(off the Southern U.S. coast, victorious)
1842 slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation
(Indian Territory, suppressed)
1843–44 Ladder Conspiracy
(Spanish Cuba, suppressed)
1859 John Brown's raid
(Virginia, suppressed)
Notable leaders
Carolta
Charles Deslondes
Denmark Vesey
François Mackandal
Gabriel Prosser
Gaspar Yanga
Jean Saint Malo
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
John Brown
Joseph Cinqué
Madison Washington
Marcos Xiorro
Maria
Nanny of the Maroons
Nat Turner
Toussaint Louverture
Tula
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Igbo women, photographed in Nigeria, early 20th century
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 their slave ship 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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^Maduforo, Okey (10 July 2012). "Freeing the souls of Igbo Landing victims". Daily Independent. Nigeria. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012.
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