Igbo Landing
| Igbo Landing | |
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The area of Igbo Landing | |
| Location | Dunbar Creek, St. Simons Island in Glynn County, Georgia, United States |
| Coordinates | 31°11′14″N 81°23′14″W / 31.18722°N 81.38722°W |
A 1930 post card showing moonlight on Dunbar River, Glynn Haven, St. Simons Island, Georgia | |
| Date | May 1803 |
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| Participants | A group of 75 Igbo enslaved people |
| 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 and 3 white overseers drowned but actual numbers of deaths uncertain |
| Part of a series on |
| North American slave revolts |
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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.