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Gullah Culture in America

Author : Wilbur Cross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949467970
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Gullah Culture in America written by Wilbur Cross and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of the rich culture of the Gullah people - a story of upheaval, endurance, and survival in the Lowcountry of the American South. Gullah Culture in America chronicles the history and culture of the Gullah people, African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of the American South. This book, written for the general public, chronicles the arrival of enslaved West Africans to the sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia; the melding of their African cultures, which created distinct creole language, cuisine, traditions, and arts; and the establishment of the Penn School, dedicated to education and support of the Gullah freedmen following the Civil War. Original author Wilbur Cross, writing in 2008, describes the ongoing Gullah story: the preservation of the culture sheltered in a rural setting, the continued influence of the Penn School (now called the Penn Center) in preserving and documenting the Gullah Geechee cultures. Today, more than 300,000 Gullah people live in the remote areas of the sea islands of St. Helena, Edisto, Coosay, Ossabaw, Sapelo, Daufuski, and Cumberland, their way of life endangered by overdevelopment in an increasingly popular tourist destination. For the second edition of this popular book, Eric Crawford, Gullah Geechee scholar and director of the Honors Program at Benedict College, has updated the text with new information and a fresh perspective on the Gullah Geechee culture"--

The Gullah People and Their African Heritage

Author : William S. Pollitzer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820327839
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book The Gullah People and Their African Heritage written by William S. Pollitzer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Making Gullah

Author : Melissa L. Cooper
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469632691
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Making Gullah written by Melissa L. Cooper and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gullah Culture in America

Author : Wilbur Cross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 156720712X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book Gullah Culture in America written by Wilbur Cross and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, 1998, and 2005, fifteen Gullah speakers went to Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa to trace their origins and ancestry. Their journey frames this exploration of the extraordinary history of the Gullah culture-characterized by strong African cultural retention and a direct influence on American culture, particularly in the South-described in this fascinating book. Since long before the Revolution, America has had hidden pockets of a bygone African culture with a language of its own, and long endowed with traditions, language, design, medicine, agriculture, fishing, hunting, weaving, and the arts. This book explores the Gullah culture's direct link to Africa, via the sea islands of the American southeast. The first published evidence of Gullah went almost unrecorded until the 1860s, when missionaries from Philadelphia made their way, even as the Civil War was at its height, to St. Helena Island, South Carolina, to establish a small institution called Penn School to help freed slaves learn how to read and write and make a living in a world of upheaval and distress. There they noticed that most of the islanders spoke a language that was only part English, tempered with expressions and idioms, often spoken in a melodious, euphonic manner, accompanied by distinctive practices in religion, work, dancing, greetings, and the arts. The homogeneity, richness, and consistency of this culture was possible because the sea-islanders were isolated. Even today, there are more than 300,000 Gullah people, many of whom speak little or no English, living in the remoter areas of the sea islands of St. Helena, Edisto, Coosay, Ossabaw, Sapelo, Daufuskie, and Cumberland. Gullah Culture in America explores not only the history of Gullah, but takes the reader behind the scenes of Gullah culture today to show what it's like to grow up, live, and celebrate in this remarkable and uniquely American community.

Gullah Spirituals

Author : Eric Sean Crawford
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643361910
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Gullah Spirituals written by Eric Sean Crawford and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gullah Culture in America

Author :
Publisher : Blair
ISBN 13 : 9781949467963
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (679 download)

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The Water Brought Us

Author : Muriel Miller Branch
Publisher : Sandlapper Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780878441532
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Water Brought Us written by Muriel Miller Branch and published by Sandlapper Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The origins of the Gullah language and culture can be traced to the castles and forts along the West African coast where captured Africans awaited transport into slavery in the West Indies and America. This distinctive Creole language and culture later took root and thrived among enslaved Africans in the West Indies and on the isolated Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia"--Page 4 of cover

A Gullah Guide to Charleston

Author : Alphonso Brown
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614232679
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book A Gullah Guide to Charleston written by Alphonso Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles

Author : Amy Lotson Roberts
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439667640
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles written by Amy Lotson Roberts and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Peculiar People

Author : Margaret Washington Creel
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814714225
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book A Peculiar People written by Margaret Washington Creel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical analysis of the Gullahs of South Carolina, and an imaginative and suggestive treatment of slave religion and social cohesion, “A Peculiar People”: Slave Religion and Community-Culture Among The Gullahs examines the components that provided the Sea Island slave population with their cultural autonomy and sense of consciousness. The elements of community, religion, and resistance are examined in relationship to this unique people. Margaret Creel traces three successive importations of slaves into the South Carolina coastal region, addressing each as a distinct period. She argues that the large numbers of slaves imported between 1749 and 1787 came predominantly from Senegambia, the Gold Coast, and Liberia. The majority of the Gullah population came from these areas of West Africa. Combining anthropological and historical studies with observations, reports, manuscripts, and letters relating to the Gullahs, the book creates an original and exceptionally fascinating analysis of Gullah culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition

Author : Joyce V. Coakley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738518305
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition written by Joyce V. Coakley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of the African art of sweetgrass basket making in the Christ Church Parish of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Talking to the Dead

Author : LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376709
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Talking to the Dead written by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking to the Dead is an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. These women communicate with their ancestors through dreams, prayer, and visions and traditional crafts and customs, such as storytelling, basket making, and ecstatic singing in their churches. Like other Gullah/Geechee women of the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, these women, through their active communication with the deceased, make choices and receive guidance about how to live out their faith and engage with the living. LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant emphasizes that this communication affirms the women's spiritual faith—which seamlessly integrates Christian and folk traditions—and reinforces their position as powerful culture keepers within Gullah/Geechee society. By looking in depth at this long-standing spiritual practice, Manigault-Bryant highlights the subversive ingenuity that lowcountry inhabitants use to thrive spiritually and to maintain a sense of continuity with the past.

Africanisms in American Culture, Second Edition

Author : Joseph E. Holloway
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253217493
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Africanisms in American Culture, Second Edition written by Joseph E. Holloway and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking text.

Penn Center

Author : Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082032602X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Penn Center written by Orville Vernon Burton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is all of Penn Center's rich past and present, as told through the experiences of its longtime Gullah inhabitants and visitors to St. Helena Island. It is the inspiring story behind the first school for former slaves, from the Civil War through the civil rights movement, illustrated in forty-two captivating photographs.

Blue Roots

Author : Roger Pinckney
Publisher : Sandlapper Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780878441686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Blue Roots written by Roger Pinckney and published by Sandlapper Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gullah Statesman

Author : Edward A. Miller, Jr.
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643362976
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Gullah Statesman written by Edward A. Miller, Jr. and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political biography of the first African American hero of the Civil War A native of Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls was born into slavery but—through acts of remarkable courage and determination—became the first African American hero of the Civil War and one of the most influential African American politicians in South Carolina history. In this largely political biography of Smalls's inspirational story, Edward A. Miller, Jr., traces the triumphs and setbacks of the celebrated U.S. congressman and advocate of compulsory, desegregated public education to illustrate how the life and contributions of this singular individual were indicative of the rise and fall of political influence for all African Americans during this rough transitional period in American history.

Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect

Author : Lorenzo Dow Turner
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781570034527
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect written by Lorenzo Dow Turner and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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