The Igbo Landing is a historic site in the sand and marshes of Dunbar Creek in St Simons,Glynn County Georgia. It was the setting of the final scene of an 1803 resistance of enslaved Igbo people brought from West Africa on slave ships. It's moral value as a story of resistance towards slavery has symbolic importance in African American folklore and literary history.
In May 1803,a shipload of seized West Africans, upon surviving the middle passage,were landed by US paid captors in Savannah by slave ship,to be auctioned off at one of the local slave markets. The ships enslaved passengers included a number of Igbo people from what is now Nigeria. The Igbo were known by planters for being fiercely independent and more unwilling to tolerate chattel slavery.
The group of 75 Igbo slaves rose up in rebellion during the voyage and took control of the ship and drowning their captors, in the process causing the grounding of the Morovia in Dunbar Creek at the site now known as Ebo or Ibo Landing.Source Wikipedia.