The Water Take Us Home

Logline

Seventy-five Igbo captives walk into Dunbar Creek singing — the birthplace of Black flight mythology.

What the episode covers

• The York, the sale at Savannah, the transfer to Skidaway, the coastal schooner to St. Simons.
• The Roswell King letter (only surviving primary source) describing seventy-five walking into the marsh.
• How the story became the myth — flying Africans, Toni Morrison, Beyoncé, and the Gullah oral tradition.

Production notes

Community-attributed traditional music only, no post-1928 material. All primary sources public domain (Library of Congress, National Archives, community archives) or community-controlled oral history. Screenplay filed with U.S. Copyright Office as part of the Gullah Geechee Biz Season 1 deposit.

Attribution

Written & Directed by Darryl Elliott Brown
Produced by Darryl Elliott Brown
A Gullah Geechee Biz Production
© 2026 Darryl Elliott Brown