“In May 1803 a group of enslaved Africans from present-day Nigeria, of Ebo or Igbo descent, leaped from a single-masted ship into Dunbar Creek off St. Simons Island in Georgia,” Thomas Hallock writes.
Thomas Hallock
Thomas Hallock is an English professor at the University of South Florida. He is a scholar of early American literature with a focus on early Florida, environmental writing and the intersections of scholarly prose and narrative nonfiction. Hallock obtained his PhD from New York University in English & American Literature and an undergraduate BA in Spanish and English from Dickinson College.