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  2. Gullah - Wikipedia

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    The Sea Islands were the first place in the South where slaves were freed. Long before the War ended, Unitarian missionaries from Pennsylvania came to start schools on the islands for the newly freed slaves. Penn Center, now a Gullah community organization on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, was founded as the first school for freed slaves ...

  3. Sierra Leonean Americans - Wikipedia

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    In particular, the Gullah people of partial Sierra Leonean ancestry, fled their owners and settled in parts of South Carolina, Georgia, and the Sea Islands, where they still retain their cultural heritage. The first wave of Sierra Leoneans to the United States, after the slavery period, was after the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s and ...

  4. Slave descendants on Georgia island fighting to keep ... - AOL

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    Gullah-Geechee communities are scattered along the Southeast coast from North Carolina to Florida, where they have endured since their enslaved ancestors were freed by the Civil War. Scholars say ...

  5. Judge approves referendum sought by slave descendants to ...

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    A judge on Tuesday approved a referendum sought by residents of one of South's last remaining Gullah-Geechee communities of slave descendants, ordering an Oct. 1 special election on whether to ...

  6. Joseph Opala - Wikipedia

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    Joseph A. Opala, OR (born August 4, 1950) is an American historian noted for 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 Low Country region of South Carolina and Georgia in the United States.

  7. GSU Gullah Geechee Center offers art, history, cultural cross ...

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    The first war was called the Indian and Negro War. In 1835, a second Seminole War occurred, called the Gullah War. African Seminoles were military leaders in that conflict and led a “full-scale ...

  8. Georgia slave descendants submit signatures to fight zoning ...

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    Residents of one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants submitted signatures Tuesday, hoping to force a referendum on whether to reverse zoning changes that they ...

  9. Saint Helena Island (South Carolina) - Wikipedia

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    The mix of cultures, somewhat isolated from the mainland, produced the Gullah culture. The Civil War began when South Carolina fired on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. After a number of setbacks for the Union, the Battle of Port Royal became an important victory on November 7, 1861.