Gullah of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

[reghubert]

Gullah Wars...let us talk about this legacy and drop this slave title.

[jakeblues1295]

I'm from South Carolina and I can remember throughout elementary school a gullah story teller would come and I swear you could only understand maybe a 10th of what they said.

[phattracs]

Cum-bi YAH in the AbraHW or as Theologians would say Hebrew means. Come By Here YAHUWAH. The Siera Leon and Timbuktu Captives are the People of the Paleo Scrolls the prophesies and scriptures that the Malakiya or Apostles preached. We are found in the lowest state of every social order in the Americas UK Middle east Asia Africa and so forth. Known as Coon, ham, nigger, boot, black, spook, African American lol and so forth.

[pang5]

Hastings said that "because of their immunity to tropical diseases of the 1700s the Gullah people had little contact with the outside world."

That really does not sound terribly logical. I mean, they were isolated because they were immune? It would seem to be more logical were it the other way 'round.

Still, very interesting video. Thank you for putting it up.

[Mrcstigallese]

@pang5 The slave masters were coming down with illnesses and even dying off because of Malaria brought on the Slave Ships from Africa. The Whites moved inland and left the Africans (who were immune to Malaria) on the Islands to work the rice crops.

[pang5]

@Mrcstigallese Aha. So an extra sentence inbetween would have helped me immensely. Heh. Thanks so much, M!

[Mrcstigallese]

@pang5 LOL!!! No problem!!

[HipHopIsInMyNYBlood]

@Mrcstigallese I was taught that the Gullah people were runaway slaves who moved to the islands and were so fierce (for lack of a better word) that the scared the whites from coming to mess with them. By keeping them away, they preserved their culture. no?

[Mrcstigallese]

@HipHopIsInMyNYBlood The West Africans who are now the Gullah/Geechee people were mostly brought through Sullivan's Island in Charleston,SC and spread throughout the Gullah/Geechee Nation (Sea Island from Jacksonville,NC to Jacksonville, FL and 30 to 35 miles inland). Malaria made it where the Masters would only spend the colder months with the enslaved. This is how we preserved our culture. You can got to Facebook and join the Gullah/Geechee Nation page to learn more... Thanx!!

[Mrcstigallese]

@HipHopIsInMyNYBlood Also the runaway Gullahs and Geechees ran to Florida and the Bahamas. We actually call them Maroons. There they met up with the Seminole Indians and lived and bred with them. This is where Black Seminoles come from. They also founded Fort Mose', the first free Black town during slavery. So we were definitely fighters and a force to be reckoned with but those on the Islands were there originally because of the tropical climate great for rice crops (Marshland, heat, etc...).

[Papillonmuscogee]

This is very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[munguia77bi]

That old church is Beach city Road and Dillon Rd, I was living like 200 hundred yards away from it, Cotton hope plantations Apartments

[nola305]

This is similar to the Creoles of Cane river in Louisiana (see the youtube video). The Creoles there would NEVER let their traditions and culture fade like what i see in South Carolina, and their land wouldn't be taken away either.

[lilemill]

She has a very heavy South Carolina Geechee accent.

Trevy I'm form New Orleans also. I am the son of a true Louisiana Creole father and true Charleston, S.C. Gullah Mother.

I am so proud of the blood the runs through my veins on both side of my family

[billdrayton]

Mention was made of Mitchelville, a town built by freed slaves on one of the rice fields of Fish Haul Plantation, where my ancestor, Thomas Fenwick Drayton, was the slave-owner. He inherited the property through his wife, a member of the Pope family. Thomas Fenwick attempted to defend the island as Major General in the Confederate forces against a Federal naval force. He knew his own brother, Perceval, was captain in the "Passaic". The Union won the battle.

[trevycoley83]

Nice job. I'm from New Orleans but I'm due for a trip over that way, never been.