Gullah Geechee Culture: Respected, Understood and Striving: Sixty Years After Lorenzo Dow Turner's Masterpiece, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (Reprint)

By The Black Scholar

Gullah Geechee Culture: Respected, Understood and Striving: Sixty Years After Lorenzo Dow Turner's Masterpiece, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (Reprint) - The Black Scholar
  • Release Date: 2011-03-22
  • Genre: Social Science

Description

Introduction MUCH of the Gullah Geechee history and culture resides in the Sea Islands and Coastal communities of South Carolina and Georgia where Lorenzo Dow Turner first immersed himself into the Gullah Geechee Culture in 1932: Sapelo Island, Harris Neck, Ossabaw Island, Pin Point, Skidaway, and Tybee Island in Georgia; and Daufuskie Island, Hilton Head Island, St. Phillips Island, Paris Island, St. Helena Island, Lady's Island, John's Island, Wadmalaw Island, Edisto Island, McClellanville, and Georgetown in South Carolina.