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How a mass suicide by slaves caused the legend of the flying African to take off

  • Written by Thomas Hallock, Professor of English, University of South Florida
How a mass suicide by slaves caused the legend of the flying African to take offLike the best myths, the tale of Igbo Landing and the flying African seems to transcend boundaries of time and space.Victor_Tongdee/iStock via Getty Images

In May 1803 a group of enslaved Africans from present-day Nigeria, of Ebo or Igbo descent, leaped from a single-masted ship into Dunbar Creek off St. Simons Island in Georgia. A slave agent...

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