Learning about a topic that I’m fascinated by today #MarginalizedPeople specifically the Gullah Geeche, of which I’ll have descendants of in my school. For those unfamiliar, The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo and Sea Island cotton plantations of the lower Atlantic coast. Many came from the rice-growing region of West Africa. The nature of their enslavement on isolated island and coastal plantations created a unique culture with deep African retentions that are clearly visible in the Gullah Geechee people’s distinctive arts, crafts, foodways, music, and language. Gullah Geechee is a unique, creole language spoken in the coastal areas of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Porgy and Bess has been studied at a many a university since it was based on the Gullah and illustrates racial stereotyping since the language was changed for wider public consumption. Language, dialect, and accent are portion of the fibers of the fabric of what makes us all so unique and interesting...so says the Appalachian anyway. (at Beaufort, South Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/B01GE1DnOtnJ5q1HuoVWEmcAAUxIpPfYgQ2B400/?igshid=1qweynwmvl18q
