The Igbo in the African Diaspora

The Africans from the Bight of Biafra, who were predominantly Igbo, comprised of roughly 12 percent of those brought across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa into the Americas. They filled up British plantations throughout North America and the Caribbean. The ethos that the Igbo lived by contributed to resistant nature in dealing with their enemies in the Americas. They ran away and formed maroon communities, committed mass suicide, and rebelled against their masters. Before Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" there was the Igbo philosophy of the transmigration of the soul that encouraged them to either live free or die trying.