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Dr. Maxine Bryant, the Gullah Geechee Heritage Center Director, has been working on the organization of an educational journey from Savannah to Sierra Leone, where Gullah Geechee’s roots can be traced back. Initially aimed for Dec. 2022, deferred to March 2023 and now hoping to launch in Nov. 2023 over Thanksgiving Break, Dr. Bryant describes.
good time, right, yeah. if you notice it s diverse. it s not just black people but everybody comes out. yeah, yeah. we celebrate everybody. i ve seen like three white people. you see more than that. stay more awake is there i brought the other ones. all two of them. those are all my whites. so how would you say that the gullah culture is different than black culture than the rest of the country. oh it s very different. yeah. you say that like i don t have enough time to go into it pull up a chair, sit down. it s not just the language, the food, mannerism. customs. things you don t raeltz you do that s what part of gullah culture. when you go somewhere else you re like, i don t get it. exactly. like i come from live in california on the other side of
an underexplored part of american history. it s more than 90% likely that everyone african-american has at least one relative landing here. while that fact fills me with you a i m disgusted with the fact of which they were brought here in the first place. . the other thing i know about this area is the gullah still hold a lot of the african cult here. it s a very powerful cultural phenomenon. my great great grandfather was called a gullah statesman. i m a the great great grandson of a statesman. he was born about hour and a half south of here worked on a boat called the planter. oenga the morning of may 13th 1862 he saw an opportunity to seize freedom. he got his crew, their families and took off right for ft.
this special rhythmic beat came from africa. but the sounds, we just we couldn t supposedly read and write but we can remember words. we are keeping it alive from one generation to the next generation. and now to this generation. growing up my only other exposure to gullah culture was we i saw daughters of the dust, a ground breaking independent film by writer director julie dash. daughters of the dust is a tribute to her gullah roots. in 2004, the library of congress added it to the national film registry, as she was the first female african-american director to have her film released nationwide. before you get too excited remember this wouldn t 50 or 60 years ago. this film came out in 1991. even though back then hollywood didn t really know what td with a powerful black female, now she works with ava dufour nay.