The Gullah (/ˈɡʌlə/) are a subgroup of the African American ethnic group, who predominantly live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of South Carolina...
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Gullah Gullah Island is an American musical children's television series aired on the Nick Jr. block from October 24, 1994, to March 7, 2000. The show...
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Gullah (also called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within...
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and South Carolina. Gullah may also refer to: Gullah language Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor or Gullah Territory Gullah Jack (died 1822), African...
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Gullah Jack (died July 12, 1822), also known as Couter Jack and sometimes referred to as "Gullah" Jack Pritchard, was an African Methodist and Hoodoo conjurer...
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best known as a child actress in the Nickelodeon television series Gullah Gullah Island (1994–1998) and Kenan & Kel (1996–2000). In 2017, she starred...
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African-American English (section Gullah)
Wolof, and Fula. Gullah has been described as a “linguistic bridge between Africa and the New World” (“Gullah Culture”). The Gullah culture is deeply...
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linguistic history, otherwise known as the Gullah people and Gullah language (aka, Geechie Gullah, or Gullah-Geechee, etc). It has been used as a nickname...
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and resources associated with Gullah-Geechee people. Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, and the federal Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor...
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in television series including as Shaina in the Nickelodeon series Gullah Gullah Island and as Robin Dixon, the daughter of Marcus Dixon, Carl Lumbly's...
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practiced varied by region and the temperament of enslavers. For example, the Gullah people of the coastal Southeast experienced an isolation and relative freedom...
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The Gullah are African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, in both...
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establishing the "Gullah Connection," the historical links between the indigenous people of the West African nation of Sierra Leone and the Gullah people of the...
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Kot Gulla is a village and union council, an administrative subdivision, of Talagang District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Talagang...
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Emily Meggett (redirect from Gullah Geechee Home Cooking)
1932 – April 21, 2023) was an American Geechee-Gullah community leader, chef, and author who co-wrote Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch...
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Boo hag (category Gullah culture)
of the Gullah culture. It is a locally created unique contribution to the worldwide hag folklore based on the syncretic belief system of Gullah or Hoodoo...
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South Carolina Lowcountry (category Gullah country)
is still heavily dominated by African American communities, such as the Gullah/Geechee people. As of the 2020 census, the population of the Lowcountry...
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Daughters of the Dust (category Gullah in popular culture)
United States. Set in 1902, it tells the story of three generations of Gullah (also known as Geechee) women in the Peazant family on Saint Helena Island...
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of Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, she is noted for her knowledge of Gullah traditions and history. Robinson was born on Daufuskie Island before natives...
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The largest is Johns Island, South Carolina. Sapelo Island is home to the Gullah people. All of the islands are acutely threatened by sea level rise due...
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United States between the 18th and early 19th century. In particular, the Gullah people of partial Sierra Leonean ancestry, fled their owners and settled...
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Haint blue (category Gullah culture)
#D1EAEB is a popular shade of haint blue. The tradition originated with the Gullah in Georgia and South Carolina. The ceiling of the slave quarters at the...
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Bible translations into creole languages (redirect from Gullah Bible)
translations into creole languages include: The effort to translate the Bible into Gullah, a creole language spoken by residents of the Sea Islands off the eastern...
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Look up Geechee in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Geechee or Gullah are African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of...
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Edda L. Fields-Black (category Researchers in Gullah anthropology)
up with her paternal grandparents, Jim Fields and Mamie Fields, who were Gullah speakers from Green Pond, South Carolina. Fields-Black earned a BA degree...
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Kumbaya (category Gullah culture)
African American spiritual of disputed origin, known to have been sung in the Gullah culture of the islands off South Carolina and Georgia, with ties to enslaved...
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lies 13 feet above sea level. The town is best known for its longstanding Gullah-speaking community, and being the birthplace of U.S. Supreme Court justice...
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Binyah Binyah Polliwog, a character on the children's television series Gullah Gullah Island Pollywog, a sailor who has not crossed the Equator, in the Line-crossing...
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from rice-growing areas in West Africa, which led to the emergence of the Gullah-Geechee language and culture among African Americans in the Lowcountry....
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Saint Helena Island (South Carolina) (category Gullah country)
African-American Gullah culture and language. It is considered to be the geographic influence behind the children's television program Gullah Gullah Island. The...
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