[PDF] The Gullah People And Their African Heritage eBook

Author : William S. Pollitzer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820327839

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The Gullah people are one of our most distinctive cultural groups. Isolated off the South Carolina-Georgia coast for nearly three centuries, the native black population of the Sea Islands has developed a vibrant way of life that remains, in many ways, as African as it is American. This landmark volume tells a multifaceted story of this venerable society, emphasizing its roots in Africa, its unique imprint on America, and current threats to its survival. With a keen sense of the limits to establishing origins and tracing adaptations, William S. Pollitzer discusses such aspects of Gullah history and culture as language, religion, family and social relationships, music, folklore, trades and skills, and arts and crafts. Readers will learn of the indigo- and rice-growing skills that slaves taught to their masters, the echoes of an African past that are woven into baskets and stitched into quilts, the forms and phrasings that identify Gullah speech, and much more. Pollitzer also presents a wealth of data on blood composition, bone structure, disease, and other biological factors. This research not only underscores ongoing health challenges to the Gullah people but also helps to highlight their complex ties to various African peoples. Drawing on fields from archaeology and anthropology to linguistics and medicine, The Gullah People and Their African Heritage celebrates a remarkable people and calls on us to help protect their irreplaceable culture.

Author : Melissa L. Cooper
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469632691

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During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African roots. At the same time, popular print media and artistic productions tapped the new appeal of black folk life, highlighting African-styled voodoo as an essential element of black folk culture. A number of researchers converged on one site in particular, Sapelo Island, Georgia, to seek support for their theories about "African survivals," bringing with them a curious mix of both influences. The legacy of that body of research is the area's contemporary identification as a Gullah community. This wide-ranging history upends a long tradition of scrutinizing the Low Country blacks of Sapelo Island by refocusing the observational lens on those who studied them. Cooper uses a wide variety of sources to unmask the connections between the rise of the social sciences, the voodoo craze during the interwar years, the black studies movement, and black land loss and land struggles in coastal black communities in the Low Country. What emerges is a fascinating examination of Gullah people's heritage, and how it was reimagined and transformed to serve vastly divergent ends over the decades.

Author : Amy Lotson Roberts
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1439667640

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The Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage. Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide in protest of slavery, the slave ship Wanderer landed on Jekyll Island and, thanks to preservation efforts, the Historic Harrington School still stands on St. Simons Island. From the Selden Normal and Industrial Institute to the tabby cabins of Hamilton Plantation, authors Amy Roberts and Patrick Holladay explore the rich history of the region's islands and their people, including such local notables as Deaconess Alexander, Jim Brown, Neptune Small, Hazel Floyd and the Georgia Sea Island Singers.

Author : R. H. Brown
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Gullahs
ISBN : 9781420881325

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Call Me Gullah presents a vivid description of a unique group within the African American culture. The Gullah living on Sea Coast Islands bordering South Carolina and Georgia have the purest bloodline of African slaves ever brought to America in wooden ships. The author suggests that some 75% of Blacks living in the United States remain unaware of the one of a kind group. This entertaining book tracks the life of a member from this community, also known as Geechees. It has been called fascinating by some who observe as these people are integrated into the larger society of mankind. Sons of former slaves have left a dialect, culture, and cuisine that has a direct link to their West African heritage. This work shines the spotlight on the Brown family of St. Helena Island, South Carolina. You will meet them and see why they are proud of their indigenous heritage.

Author : Lorenzo Dow Turner
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781570034527

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A unique creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an isolated and largely ignored linguistic phenomenon until the publication of Lorenzo Dow Turner's landmark volume Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. In his classic treatise, Turner, the first professionally trained African American linguist, focused on a people whose language had long been misunderstood, lifted a shroud that had obscured the true history of Gullah, and demonstrated that it drew important linguistic features directly from the languages of West Africa. Initially published in 1949, this groundbreaking work of Afrocentric scholarship opened American minds to a little-known culture while initiating a means for the Gullah people to reclaim and value their past. The book presents a reference point for today's discussions about ever-present language varieties, Ebonics, and education, offering important reminders about the subtleties and power of racial and cultural prejudice. In their introduction to the volume, Katherine Wyly Mille and Michael B. Montgomery set the text in its sociolinguistic context, explore recent developments in the celebratio

Author : Matthew Raiford
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1682686051

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More than 100 heirloom recipes from a dynamic chef and farmer working the lands of his great-great-great grandfather. From Hot Buttermilk Biscuits and Sweet Potato Pie to Salmon Cakes on Pepper Rice and Gullah Fish Stew, Gullah Geechee food is an essential cuisine of American history. It is the culinary representation of the ocean, rivers, and rich fertile loam in and around the coastal South. From the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida, this is where descendants of enslaved Africans came together to make extraordinary food, speaking the African Creole language called Gullah Geechee. In this groundbreaking and beautiful cookbook, Matthew Raiford pays homage to this cuisine that nurtured his family for seven generations. In 2010, Raiford’s Nana handed over the deed to the family farm to him and his sister, and Raiford rose to the occasion, nurturing the farm that his great-great-great grandfather, a freed slave, purchased in 1874. In this collection of heritage and updated recipes, he traces a history of community and family brought together by food.

Author : Alphonso Brown
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2008-05-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1614232679

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An expert in Gullah culture introduces the rich history of black Charlestonians through a series of local walking tours plus a sightseeing drive. The Gullah people of the Lowcountry South are famous for their cuisine, Creole language, and exquisite crafts—yet there is so much more to this unique culture than most people realize. Alphonso Brown, the owner and operator of Gullah Tours, Inc., guides readers through the history and lore of this storied people in A Gullah Guide to Charlestown. With this volume guiding the way, you can visit Denmark Vesey's home, Catfish Row, the Old Slave Mart and the Market; learn about the sweetgrass basket makers, the Aiken-Rhett House slave quarters, black slave owners and blacksmith Philip Simmons. Brown's distinctive narration, combined with detailed maps and vibrant descriptions in native Gullah, make this an authentic and enjoyable way to experience the Holy City.

Author : R. H. Brown
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781420848427

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Call Me Gullah presents a vivid description of a unique group within the African American culture. The Gullah living on Sea Coast Islands bordering South Carolina and Georgia have the purest bloodline of African slaves ever brought to America in wooden ships. The author suggests that some 75% of Blacks living in the United States remain unaware of the one of a kind group. This entertaining book tracks the life of a member from this community, also known as Geechees. It has been called fascinating by some who observe as these people are integrated into the larger society of mankind. Sons of former slaves have left a dialect, culture, and cuisine that has a direct link to their West African heritage. This work shines the spotlight on the Brown family of St. Helena Island, South Carolina. You will meet them and see why they are proud of their indigenous heritage.

Author : Eric Sean Crawford
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1643361910

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In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, some traditions like the shouting and rowing songs have been all but forgotten. This work, which focuses primarily on South Carolina's St. Helena Island, illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of spirituals since the earliest recordings in the 1860s. Grounded in an oral tradition with a dynamic and evolving character, spirituals proved equally adaptable for use during social and political unrest and in unlikely circumstances. Most notably, the island's songs were used at the turn of the century to help rally support for the United States' involvement in World War I and to calm racial tensions between black and white soldiers. In the 1960s, civil rights activists adopted spirituals as freedom songs, though many were unaware of their connection to the island. Gullah Spirituals uses fieldwork, personal recordings, and oral interviews to build upon earlier studies and includes an appendix with more than fifty transcriptions of St. Helena spirituals, many no longer performed and more than half derived from Crawford's own transcriptions. Through this work, Crawford hopes to restore the cultural memory lost to time while tracing the long arc and historical significance of the St. Helena spirituals.