Self Discovery: The Gullah

Gullah is a community living in coastal areas of South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia. Gullah's ancestor dates back to Charleston, South Carolina. There is a port of Atlantic slave trade which is most commonly used in North America. Gullah is "not just a person's word and name, it covers struggle, spirituality, perseverance, and essence of tradition" (South Carolina Business and Industry). Their relatives are West Africans who are suffering many difficulties and are respected and remembered for the rare African cultural protection that the Qur'an survives.

Sea Island Creole English, or "Gullah" is a language specific to some African Americans along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. Gullah is a Creole word in English. It is a natural language whose grammar does not depend on English, mainly using English vocabulary. Most of today's Gullah speakers may form a continuum with English. There are also Gala in Oklahoma State and Texas State called Afro Seminole Creole. Speech expressing black people in American literature has a long tradition. Many researchers have studied how American writers are depicting black letters, how black identities are established, and how it relates to other actors. Brasch (1981: x) believes that the depiction of the black speech by the early mass media is the most powerful historical evidence of changes in only black English.

Gullah is a community living in coastal areas of South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia. Gullah's ancestor dates back to Charleston, South Carolina. There is a port of Atlantic slave trade which is most commonly used in North America. Gullah is "not just a person's word and name, it includes struggle, spirituality, perseverance, the essence of tradition" (South Carolina Business and Industry). Their relatives are West Africans who are suffering many difficulties and are respected and remembered for the rare African cultural protection that the Qur'an survives.

Historically, the Gullah region extended north to Cape Fear on the coast of North Carolina State and extended south to Jacksonville on the coast of Florida; today the Gullah region is confined to lowlands in South Carolina and Georgia. Almost half of the Africans slaughtered at Charleston Port were brought to North America for Atlantic slave trade. For a better example of the 249 cultural heritage, please refer to "Patricia Jones - Jackson when the Roots Die": Tradition of the Endangered Islands. Athens: Georgia University Press. 1987; Mills, Peterkin, and McCollough passed: Voices from the historical history of the WPA of the Gullah community in South Carolina. University of South Carolina Press Bureau Genevieve W. Chandler Collection, Kriel, Margaret Washington, Special Person: Slave Religion and Regional Culture of Gula. New York: New York University Press, 1988, Film of the Julie Dash, daughter of dust, 1999