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  2. Gullah - Wikipedia

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    The Gullah people and their language are also called Geechee, which may be derived from the name of the Ogeechee River near Savannah, Georgia. [3] Gullah is a term that was originally used to designate the creole dialect of English spoken by Gullah and Geechee people. Over time, its speakers have used this term to formally refer to their creole ...

  3. Gullah language - Wikipedia

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    A woman speaking Gullah and English. Gullah (also called Gullah-English, [2] Sea Island Creole English, [3] and Geechee [4]) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community), an African American population living in coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia (including urban Charleston and Savannah) as well as extreme northeastern Florida and ...

  4. Geechie - Wikipedia

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    Geechie (and various other spellings, such as Geechy or Geechee) is a word referring to the U.S. Lowcountry ethnocultural group of the descendants of enslaved West Africans who retained their cultural and linguistic history, otherwise known as the Gullah people and Gullah language (aka, Geechie Gullah, or Gullah-Geechee, etc).

  5. The Gullah Geechee are often omitted from textbooks. One of ...

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    The Gullah Geechee people held on to stories, religious practices, farming methods, recipes and even formed their own language, separate from that of colonial Americans on the mainland. But now ...

  6. Who are the Gullah Geechee people? Here is what you ... - AOL

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    The song, “Kumbaya,” which means “Come By Here,” is a Gullah song. Rice plantations were numerous in Georgetown and Horry County during the days of slavery, Hemingway said. The Gullah ...

  7. Hilton Head mourns loss of Gullah matriarch, believed to be ...

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    The church, founded by freed Gullah Geechee in the 1880s, is one of the few institutions on Hilton Head that predated Rivers’ birth. Clarence Rivers said she even had a favored spot in the ...

  8. Representations of Gullah culture in art and media - Wikipedia

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    "Gullah" is the third song on Clutch's album Robot Hive/Exodus (2005). "Kum Bah Yah" is a Gullah phrase, and as such, the song is claimed to have originated in Gullah culture; The folk song "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" (or "Michael Row Your Boat Ashore") comes from the Gullah culture

  9. Climate change threatens the coastal Gullah Geechee - AOL

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    The Gullah Geechee are descendants of enslaved people who live in coastal U.S. communities along the Southeast. Isolation has allowed them to maintain their distinct way of life, including their ...