Living in a culture that had its own dialect may have presented difficulties to Jessica Richardson when she transferred to a more diverse high school, but it recently proved to be a blessing. The ...

African languages have influenced the dialects spoken by some Americans. The New Testament of the Bible has now been translated into that dialect. Consider the story of the Good Samaritan, who happens ...

On St. Helena Island, South Carolina, something quietly extraordinary has been happening. One of the most historically ...

Marquetta “Queen Quet” Goodwine spent some time teaching the Gullah culture at the Gullah Museum for Gullah Geeche Famlee Day. A St. Helena Island native, Quet is chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee ...

JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. — After the Civil War, former slaves across the South left the region to escape white terrorism. But along the Carolina coast, many remained. They claimed land from abandoned ...

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The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of enslaved West and Central Africans who live along the southeastern coast of the U.S. The Gullah Geechee Chamber of Commerce and the William Monroe Trotter ...

If a slave died while cutting rice stalks in the wet paddy fields on Sapelo Island, Georgia, those laboring with him were not permitted to attend to the body. The buzzards arrived first. But at night, ...

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