Jesse Edward Gamit, Jr.
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"The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is a National Heritage Area managed by the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission. The National Heritage Area program is managed by the U.S. National Park Service. National Heritage Areas are designated by Congress as places where natural, cultural, and historic resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally important landscape. The purpose of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor NHA is to preserve, share, and interpret the history, traditional cultural practices, heritage sites, and natural resources associated with Gullah Geechee people of coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida."
Daufuskie Island’s Robert Kennedy Trail Teaches Gullah History
Teacher’s guide on Daufuskie Island
Cover Art: Gullah History along the Carolina Lowcountry by Thomas Pyatt
Call Number: BCC E185.93.S7 P93 2006
Publication Date: 2006
This book is a documentation and artistic preservation of the history and culture of the Gullah People along the Carolina Lowcountry. This Gullah-Geechee culture came from West Africa and was passed down by Sea Island slaves to subsequent generations. Therefore, this culture has survived despite many changes and displacements. The people of this area are aware of their culture and traditions and are still living in these isolated areas by choice. Though some communities that were isolated and tucked away for decades are now seeing their land in great demand for development, they continue to live as they have for generations. Their history comes alive within the pages of this book, which includes illustrations and pictures by the author.
Cover ArtAfrican American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry by Allison Dorsey (Contribution by); Vincent Carretta (Contribution by); Philip Morgan (Editor); Betty Wood (Contribution by); Emory Campbell (Contribution by); Erskine Clarke (Contribution by); Jacqueline Jones (Contribution by); Michael Gomez (Contribution by); Paul M. Pressly (Contribution by); Theresa Singleton (Contribution by); Timothy Powell (Contribution by)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2010
The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery surrounding some of its inhabitants — people who owe, in some ways, as much to Africa as to America. As the ten previously unpublished essays in this volume examine various aspects of Georgia lowcountry life, they often engage a central dilemma: the region's physical and cultural remoteness helps to preserve the venerable ways of its black inhabitants, but it can also marginalize the vital place of lowcountry blacks in the Atlantic World.
Cover ArtPenn Center: A History Preserved by Orville Vernon Burton; Wilbur Cross; James Clyburn (Preface by)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2014
The Gullah people of St. Helena Island still relate that their people wanted to "catch the learning" after northern abolitionists founded Penn School in 1862, less than six months after the Union army captured the South Carolina sea islands. In this broad history, Orville Vernon Burton and Wilbur Cross range across the past 150 years to reacquaint us with the far-reaching impact of a place where many daring and innovative social justice endeavors had their beginnings.
