This set of tondi depicts a widely reported incident from 1803 in which a group of Igbo captives, being imported into the United States to be enslaved, chose instead to walk back into the Atlantic Ocean and drown themselves rather than be subject to the horrors of slavery. Water became both the bringer of their death and the source of their liberation. The duality of their bravery and sacrifice, and the contrast to the millions of folks who didn’t make that choice, but made choices similar to it every day in small ways–to yield parts of their own humanity–resonates deeply with Myers. For the artist, the entire incident slips the easy binary of what it means to be courageous, what it means to survive, and what it means to preserve one's spirit.