Gullah Geechee Storyteller Preserves a Painful Past | National Geographic

The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of West African slaves brought to the coasts of the Carolinas, Georgia, and northern Florida, whose geographic isolation helped them retain a distinct culture and language. In chronicling the injustice her ancestors faced, South Carolina Gullah storyteller Theresa Jenkins Hilliard seeks to make their struggle real and relevant to younger generations.
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Read more about Gullah Geechee heritage:
http://goo.gl/BoH4cT

Read about South Carolina's ACE Basin online in National Geographic magazine:
http://goo.gl/Dl3PzB

PRODUCER: Kathryn Carlson
ARCHIVAL IMAGES: Library of Congress; National Geographic Creative; Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Lois Turner Williams
ADDITIONAL SOUND: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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