They say the Ebo tribe still haunts the landing and you can hear the chains and their chants “The Sea brought me and the Sea will bring me home.”
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The expanse of the Atlantic Ocean could not stop the igbo spirit and separate them from their ancestral land; they courageously showed the world that the living spirit has no respect for distance. I could refer to this excerpt from Dennis Brutus:
“stone walls do not a prison make,
nor iron bars a cage….”
This mass rejection of slavery, to my mind, sent a heart-rending signal to the discerning world that slavery was evil and, possibly, marked the beginning of its end.
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