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It's A Bird....
It's A Plane....
It's A Flying African
Georgia, USA
This interpretation is obivously
exaggerated but its effect has been
far reaching. African American authors have written entire books about or based on this story.
The Plot Thickens
There are two sides to the story at this point. A written account by a white overseer aboard the ship claims that all of the slaves committed suicide by jumping in the swamp after reaching the island
The Myth of the Flying Africans is based on the
Igbo people of the West African Nation of Nigeria.
In the Spring of 1803, they endured a journey through the Middle Passage to Savannah Georgia.
Once there, they then boarded a smaller vessel en route to the St. Simon islands after being sold. It is aboard this ship that the slaves revolted and the white overseers jumped overboard and drowned.
African Oral tradition argues that the slaves
developed the magical and freeing power of flight during this second journey and simply flew away.