Our Story

The art on the tee shirt and sweatshirts feature images of captured Igbo people from present-day Nigeria, whose story reflects both tragedy and resistance. In 1803, after enduring the horrors of the Middle Passage, they revolted aboard a ship transporting them to St. Simons Island, Georgia. Seizing control, they forced the crew into the water and chose to march into Dunbar Creek, embracing death over a life of enslavement in a profound act of defiance.   Just one year later, in 1804, a different but equally powerful expression of resistance reshaped the Atlantic world. Under the leadership of Jean- Jacques Dessalines, formerly enslaved people in Haiti successfully overthrew French colonial rule, declaring Haiti an independent and sovereign nation on January 1, 1804. This marked the first successful slave revolt to establish a free Black republic, symbolizing the broader struggle for freedom and self-determination that connected acts of resistance across the African diaspora.