The tragic yet resilient story of Igbo slaves who committed mass suicide off U.S. coast in 1803.
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"Contemporary artists like Beyonce have also depicted and paid homage to the Igbo Landing in their work. In the recent wildly acclaimed Marvel comic film ...
Black Panther, Killmonger, played by actor Michael B Jordan, refers to this event, saying, “Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, ’cause they knew death was better than bondage”.
The People Who Walked Off The Slave Ships and Walked Right Back into the Water 🌊💦 ....
The tragic yet resilient story of Igbo slaves who committed mass suicide off U.S. coast in 1803 -
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The tragic yet resilient story of Igbo slaves who committed mass suicide off U.S. coast in 1803 -
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"The Igbo Landing is a historic site at #DunbarCreek on St. Simons Island, #GlynnCounty, #Georgia. It is the site of one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people in history."
"Popular American preacher, Bishop T.D Jakes of the Potter's House, has revealed how he discovered that his ancestors are from the Igbo tribe of Nigeria."
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"I am #Nigerian because a white man created #Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was #Igbo before the white man came."
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pastor T. D. Jake's DNA strongly suggest that his cultural/ethnicity identity is Igbo/African America.
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