Ibo Landing #7. Charcoal on paper, 52 Â 52 in. Copyright V C 2009 Donovan Nelson/Valen- tine Museum of Art. An artistic rendering of a collective suicide carried out in 1803 off the coast of Georgia in a place now called Igbo Landing (also Ibo, Ebo, and Ebos Land- ing), where a group of recently arrived slaves drowned themselves, it is believed, in order to allow their souls to travel back across the Atlantic and return home. That remarkable, powerful act of resistance represents just one of a broader set of meanings assigned to sui- cide during and after slavery’s reign. Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/122/2/317/3096204 by guest on 24 November 2021