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

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    Gullah Geechee people are descendants of West Africans brought here as part of the slave trade. They were brought here because of their knowledge to control water and manage the lands, Hemingway said.

  4. Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor - Wikipedia

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    The Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor extends along the coast of the southeastern United States through North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida in recognition of the Gullah-Geechee people and culture. Gullah-Geechee are direct descendants of West African slaves brought into the United States around the 1700s. They were ...

  5. 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).

  6. Identities of 7 who died in Georgia dock collapse released ...

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    The Gullah and Geechee remain on coastlines and barrier islands running from North Carolina to Florida − but their future is imperiled despite the congressionally designated Gullah Geechee ...

  7. ‘Saltwata Vibes’ Documentary From Simeon And Sara Makeba ...

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    As their generation of Gullah Geechee face the challenges of finding an identity when you are born within a culture, that is within a culture, that is within a culture – this documentary will ...

  8. Daughters of the Dust - Wikipedia

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    Their ancestors were brought there as enslaved people centuries ago, and the islanders developed a language—known as Gullah or Sea Island Creole English—and culture that was creolized from West Africans of Ibo, Yoruba, Mende, and Twi origin, along with some influence from the Bakongo of central Africa as well as the cultures and languages ...

  9. The Gullah-Geechee residents of Sapelo Island were already facing a number of stressors: gentrification, tax hikes and an ongoing exodus of islanders to the mainland where there are schools and ...