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Gullah-Geechee

Posted by Annette Holmes <annette.holmes@ucop.edu> on Thu, 26 May 2005, in response to GEECHEE HISTORY, posted by Gwen Barnes on Mon, 21 Jun 2004

The people who are called Gullah were enslaved Africans who lived on the islands off the South Carolina coast. Geechee is the term for those who lived on the island off the coast of Georgia and northern Florida.

They were regular Africans, but since they were from different parts of Africa they had to come up with a language that they could all understand to get their work done and communicate with the slaveowners.

My family, whom I thought was from Louisiana, are Gullah/Geechees. They were first enslaved in coastal South Carolina (as slaves to Edward Middleton, who emigrated from Barbadoes) then moved to coastal Georgia (as slaves to Major Pierce Butler), then sold during "The Weeping Time" in 1859 to Louisiana.

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