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Georgia's Gullah-Geechee Heritage

The Gullah-Geechee are the descendants of West African and Central African people who were brought to this country to do slave labor on coastal plantations stretching from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Jacksonville, Florida.

Selected Articles

 

Image illustration of slaves picking cotton

Illustration Credit: Picking Cotton on a Georgia Plantation, a print from a 1858 wood engraving, from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.

 

  • Amos, A. M. (2011). Black Seminoles: The Gullah Connections. Black Scholar, 41(1), 32-47. 
  • Campbell, E. S. (2011). Gullah Geechee Culture: Respected, Understood and Striving: Sixty Years after Lorenzo Dow Turner's Masterpiece, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. Black Scholar, 41(1), 77-84.
  • Hamilton, K. (2012). Mother Tongues and Captive Identities: Celebrating and "Disappearing" the Gullah/Geechee Coast. Mississippi Quarterly, 65(1), 51-68. 
  • Honerkamp, N., & Crook, R. (2012). Archaeology in a Geechee Graveyard. Southeastern Archaeology, 31(1), 103-114. 
  • Klein, T. B. (2011). African Sounds in Gullah Geechee and on Middle Caicos. Black Scholar, 41(1), 22-31.