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RSS Feeds`Our history is getting erased`: the biggest threat to Sandy Island`s Gullah is not hurricanes
(The Guardian United States)

 
 

23 september 2018 15:47:24

 
`Our history is getting erased`: the biggest threat to Sandy Island`s Gullah is not hurricanes
(The Guardian United States)
 


A South Carolina community that has retained its African-influenced language weathered last week´s storm but faces other challenges to its futureLaura Herriott stepped off the Sandy Island landing dock into a fog-cloaked early morning covering the American mainland. Although only a passing car broke the silence it was louder than her island home, which lies a five-minute boat ride across the swollen Waccamaw river.Secluded and nestled between two South Carolina rivers, Sandy Island houses a dozen homes for descendants of rice-cultivating West African slaves who created their own culture on the eastern seaboard, known as the Gullah. Continue reading...


 
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