Resistance to Enslavement in Georgia's Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor: The Case of the Ebo Landing Rebellion in Glynn County and the Boggy Swamp Plantation Rebellion in Camden County

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This paper focuses on resistance to enslavement in Georgia's Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor with special reference to two rebellions. It looks at the Ebo Landing Rebellion in Glynn County during 1803. It also looks at the Boggy Swamp Plantation Rebellion in Camden County during 1840. This paper argues that both rebellions involved enslaved Black people with a Gullah heritage. It also argues that two rebellions should no longer be overlooked or ignored in the literature on rebellions of enslaved Black people in Georgia and elsewhere. The research methodology employed here is a mixed-methods approach involving the case study method and the observation method.