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Works Cited

"New Georgia Encyclopedia: Ebos Landing." New Georgia Encyclopedia: Ebos Landing. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2013

It's A Bird....

It's A Plane....

It's A Flying African

Moby Dick/ Blake

ST. SIMONS ISLAND

The revolt, which is the true part of the story

is simply something that the crew in Moby Dick should have done.

Henry's idea of revolt in Blake is it's connection to the text.

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.

Ebos Landing

The Plot Thickens

Nigeria

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 Igbo People

The Myth

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.

Story

African Oral tradition argues that the slaves

developed the magical and freeing power of flight during this second journey and simply flew away.

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