It was June 1730. Nearly 100 men, women, and children were shackled and loaded onto the Little George. The slave ship then departed from Guinea, West Africa, bound for Rhode Island. The enslavers could never have expected what would happen next. But the captives knew exactly what the future held.
The Africans had been secretly plotting their freedom for days. One morning, just before daybreak, all hell broke loose. Several Africans slipped from their iron chains, broke out of the locked lower deck, and escaped to the upper deck, where they seized weapons and killed the crew's guards.
They then locked up Captain George Scott and the remaining crew in a cabin. With the ship under African control, the Africans changed course.
After several days they finally reached the Sierra Leone River. They'd returned to the motherland, where they abandoned the ship, leaving the crew trapped onboard. Liberation doesn't happen by itself. Everyone on the Little George knew and played their role, strategically working together to take over the ship and bring themselves home.
We are unstoppable when we're committed to the same mission. We each have a part to play in liberation. Anything is possible. What will you contribute to our freedom?