Black History Month Special: Gullah Geechee

The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is home to one of America's most unique cultures, a tradition first shaped by captive Africans brought to the southern United States from West Africa and continued in later generations by their descendants.

Note: Thanks to the Smithsonian for their preservation and research work here and in so many other places - a national treasure.

Georgia's Gullah-Geechee Heritage

https://libguides.ccga.edu/gullahgeechee

A Smithsonian curator visits a Georgia island to find stories

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/holding-on-to-gullah-culture-185296/

This month in Linguistics History: Tribute to Lorenzo Dow Turner, whose efforts memorialized the lore of the region

https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/month-linguistics-history-tribute-lorenzo-dow-turner

A language of their own

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gullah-language

A South Georgian reflection: a Culture Unto Itself by G. Wayne Clough

http://bit.ly/2vvY37M

Sweetgrass Baskets:

https://libguides.ccga.edu/c.php?g=282583&p=1882631


Gullah food traditions

https://www.pbs.org/video/gullah-geechee-food-traditions-ozahpl/

The Ring Shouters

https://www.geecheegullahringshouters.com/

 

The Gullah Bible

http://www.gullahbible.com/e-GullahNT/index.htm

What the Color 'Haint Blue' Means to the Descendants of Enslaved Africans

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-haint-blue-means-to-descendants-enslaved-africans

 

Charleston, SC’s Gullah Roots

https://www.africanamericancharleston.com/themes/gullah/

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