Dominican University’s Center for Igbo Studies helped organize a recent three-day event commemorating the anniversary of a historic slave revolt.

The 220th Igbo Landing Commemoration, held May 26-28 on St. Simons Island, Georgia, recognized the group of Igbo people who, after arriving in America following their capture in West Africa in 1803, took control of their slave ship and committed mass suicide by drowning to avoid a life of enslavement.