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Gullah Culture in America Hardback - 2007

by Wilbur Cross

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In 1989, 1998, and 2005, fifteen Gullah speakers went to Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa to trace their origins and ancestry. Their journey frames this exploration of the extraordinary history of the Gullah culture-characterized by strong African cultural retention and a direct influence on American culture, particularly in the South-described in this fascinating book. Since long before the Revolution, America has had hidden pockets of a bygone African culture with a language of its own, and long endowed with traditions, language, design, medicine, agriculture, fishing, hunting, weaving, and the arts. This book explores the Gullah culture's direct link to Africa, via the sea islands of the American southeast.

The first published evidence of Gullah went almost unrecorded until the 1860s, when missionaries from Philadelphia made their way, even as the Civil War was at its height, to St. Helena Island, South Carolina, to establish a small institution called Penn School to help freed slaves learn how to read and write and make a living in a world of upheaval and distress. There they noticed that most of the islanders spoke a language that was only part English, tempered with expressions and idioms, often spoken in a melodious, euphonic manner, accompanied by distinctive practices in religion, work, dancing, greetings, and the arts. The homogeneity, richness, and consistency of this culture was possible because the sea-islanders were isolated. Even today, there are more than 300,000 Gullah people, many of whom speak little or no English, living in the remoter areas of the sea islands of St. Helena, Edisto, Coosay, Ossabaw, Sapelo, Daufuskie, and Cumberland. Gullah Culture in America explores not only the history of Gullah, but takes the reader behind the scenes of Gullah culture today to show what it's like to grow up, live, and celebrate in this remarkable and uniquely American community.

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  • Title Gullah Culture in America
  • Author Wilbur Cross
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger, Westport, Conn
  • Publication date 2007-12-30
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780275994501 / 0275994503
  • Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.47 x 1.06 in (23.62 x 16.43 x 2.69 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Library of Congress subjects Gullahs - History, Gullahs - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007035412
  • Dewey Decimal Code 975.004

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2008, Page 82

About the author

Wilbur Cross is the author or co-author of more than 50 books and was an editor at Life for eight years.

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