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I AM GEECHEE. OUR GULLAH STORY!
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2014
- This past summer my cousin Delvin Williams and I embarked on a journey; a journey back home to Charleston, South Carolina. This was not a typical trip back home...We were on a mission. We wanted to know what it TRULY meant to be of Gullah/Geechee decent. Our findings couldn't possibly be summed up in one short video; but I compiled some footage and photos to give you all a glimpse into a rather unknown culture.
Special thanks to Charleston's very own Gullah Chef BJ Dennis for providing such insightful information; Roadside Seafood on James Island for their gracious hospitality and Mr. Fields at John Fields Organic Farm for a wonderful tour.
Stay Tuned...... This is just the beginning! I encourage everyone to take the time to research the Gullah/Geechee Heritage. You will surely be amazed!
THANKS FOR WATCHING...MAKE SURE TO SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, AND FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK/INSTAGRAM!
Just beautiful. My father side is Gullah and as a child, I loved spending my summers in Charleston with my grandparents. It's nice seeing other young Black Americans around my age taking pride in their culture and heritage. Keep up the good work and please continue to educate people about our true history.
Why no one ever mention Barbados, when speaking of the gullah and geechee people? did you all know that Barbadian people built Charleston, settled SC in 1670 landed on the Ashley river with John DrAYTON, THE FIRST 7 GOVERNORS AMERICA HAD BEFORE AND PRESIDENTS CAME FROM BARBADOS, this is hidden from people of color, the truth is the truth, Barbadian owned the south in the early days SC NC VA GA ECT DO YOUR RESEARCH, WHEN I SEE THE HARSH THINGS HAPPEN TO THESE PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH THATS OUR ANCESTORS. FROM BARBADOS
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@@chuckbrooks2271 Yes brother we are from the same tribe. We love yall brother.
Because not all Gullah people are from Barbados…
My mother is from the Bahamas. Americans would always ask her if she was from NC because of her accent. It’s true, Bahamians and the Gullah ppl sound alike and customs are similar. The diaspora!! Wow thank you for posting.
You’re right look at Barbadian history and Gullah geeche
We are more related than we are
Im a born Bahamian grew up in Turks and Caicos Islands. We are most definitely Gullah!!
Too bad gullah in SC huh.
@@chrislee5620like they dont consider nc/sc to be one state and on top of that alot of Geechee having been moving here (nc) for decades. You knew what they meant just annoying for nothing.
✊🏿🖤 to all my fellow geechee family
I am so proud, as a child my Mom and Grandmother would talk about Geechee. They are from Sumpter SC. I love me some rice. Now I know why. Great educational video.
Low country cooking is my fav way to cook...❤
I am so proud of my southern culture and traditions!🙏🏽
Thanks for sharing!💯
@Kenney Gunn
👋🏽Hello!
I was born in Dorchester County..
Summerville, SC
Love this! My family bloodline on my mother side is in Moncks Corner just outside of Charleston. Love hearing the stories of history from the elders there growing up....
This is great history! The Geechee people have a tradition so similar to those in the Caribbean. As I watch this video it reminds me of the Jamaican countryside.
Wolete Rutty Yes this really favors parts of St Thomas Jamaica.
Wolete Rutty yes lol konch soup
Wolete Rutty yes most can easily mistaken! For years people thought I was from the Caribbean. But we from Charleston SC. Gullah people.
Sam Jo I’m so confused all of y’all are from the same African continent it’s probably why your cultures and traditions are similar
@@CleanMusicLover229 Caribbeans did come to America but not in large enough numbers to affect African American culture, they assimilated.
We Gullah Geechee are Proto African Americans or the root of African American culture, as most slaves from the rice Coast/Mali empire region were sent to the Carolinas and Georgia.
Things like Ebonics, hoodoo, soul food, the dozens, etc. All originally come from the Gullah Geechee, later being spread by migration, then going through a creolization process. Meaning, If you're African-American than one of your ancestors was a gullah geeche.
People who lack knowledge of linguistics and pre Atlantic slave trade African history, try to pass us off as the descendants of Caribbeans, not knowing that we're just continuing the practices and forms of culture that originally come from the rice Coast.
Just found out today from an 81 year old cousin that i am Lowland Saltwater Geechee. Wow what a revelation. So excited to see all my Geechee brothers and sisters sharing and discussing our birthright. Thanks to you all! Thank you Kardea.
I love my people.
Thank you for sharing, I really want to visit St Helena for my birthday and travel the surroundings area. Gullah Geechee is in my blood ❤️❤️❤️
this is so beautiful - the basket weaving just like my grandma does it today in Uganda, the song as the end so soothing like the South African freedom songs. I will explore more of this culture - I now have a reason to visit s. carolina.
Armstrong is a common surname in Barbados... Check Barbados plantation owner dockets online to see where your people might come from.
Im from savannah ga and geechie and gullah is big down their too man i love this history about our ancestors
Is that why i talk this way...savannah baby
I’m adopted... Just learned my biological mother is of this culture, though her people come from Florida. I’m so grateful for this video. I’m searching for information on the culture everywhere and learning so much ...making me feel so proud 💕💯
Really???
I thank you for this video, too..I'm learning the Geechee in me..and this is helping with that research!
How do you know your Geechee?
Cowboy Fan Because of my HOLMES bloodline
Inky Mann my grandfather is from Chesterfield, SC. I can’t find any information on him yet
@@Brookintellect My people are in Beaufort, SC. I'm also related to the Whites
Inky Mann Yeah you in the Low country on the coastline. Chesterfield is in the North, not to far from N. Carolina. I have some White’s in my family tree. I didn’t trace their origins though. My Grandfather’s last name was Washington. Don’t know much about any Washington’s in South Carolina
Born and raised... and still living on the islands of Charleston!!!! I had the pleasure of picking up and dropping off the kids of Sol legare... in the first scene... this school year. I live right past the bridge in the beginning of the video. I drive it EVERYDAY. Ate at roadside for the first time about a month ago.... loved it!!! I was raised in the creek learning how to catch my own crabs, shrimp, clams... even encountered Gators in the creek... lol. I love my home town to death!!!!
Meggan Scott I'm from Charleston SC
Scott, is a common name in Barbados, if you do your research you will find that the people of Barbados settled Charleston in 1670 you have some of the same culture lol
Enjoyed this video, just make me want too study more about my heritage and struggles.
I love my ppl. From north n south Carolina, ga
My Aunt is Aldraina Seymore
Thanks for sharing! so ready for vacation to go visit family down in Georgetown, SC!
Home sweet home. I too am from James Island
Grimball plantation ancesters
I really did enjoy this video! you all are very lucky to have elders in your life to explain who you are,where you come from,what things mean all references to culture!unfortunately I don't have that,but do to research I just found out that on my grandfather who is 76 his ancestors are from Laurens,South Carolina and Sullivan Island... the sad part is,is that no one really knew of this until we start doing research and i'm still doing the ancestry research.So just know y'all are very blessed to have such an outstanding experience!!😀
I had the pleasure of visiting Charleston as a child, and lived there for 5 years (off "D" road) in the early 2000's, and I have actually known Delvin for 11/12 years. Charleston is a wonderfully beautiful place and the amount of history contained in Charleston and the surrounding islands is amazing! The food is fantastic and is one of the things I miss the most (I have certain places I have to go to eat every time I go back). I think your video shows a lot of the important things about the area, but most importantly, the people that keep the traditions going. I can't wait to see the next one!
Thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate your comment!
I am so grateful to have found this video. I love learning about the Geechee culture
Am in Africa East Africa Uganda Born in Southwest of The country all the hand crafts being made in this video my mom used to do when I was young it's amazing to see ur 💓💓💓💓💓 for sure African blood is in you
Beautiful Thank You For Sharing Our History
This was so beautiful. It makes me apperciate my southern heritage
My mother My grandmother, My grandfather and their parents parents all gheechees! from Charleston! Family in North Charleston, Summerville and Ridgeville S C. low lands!
I'm from Ridgeville, SC
Geechee's, are from Georgia. Gullah, people are from the Carolina's.
@@barbram8001 that's false
WOW thanks for sharing this awesome experience with us all, this truly is an amazing video :-)
Can't believe I didn't hear about this until today. This place remains me of Jamaica!
My family is of this culture but Gullah culture came from west Africa an culture so I'd rather connect to the roots if you know what i mean. It's really weird hearing my family speak a mix of African languages bc I'm from New Jersey just moved to Columbia so I'm still adapting.
I hope you guys teach the basket weaving to your children
Amen! 🙏🏽 thank you for sharing! Their is no place like home!!! ❤️ sending Love&Prayers to all my brothers &sisters. Love from Canada 🇨🇦❤️🙏🏽🇨🇦
Love the stories and the music!
Lolololol. Look at my brother Delvin doing his research. Love the video
James Island-my home ❤️
I have family from grimball platation
@Kardea's Kuisine,thanks a million and showcaseing our culture. I am a Gullah/Geechie maternally,born,and raised in California......
welcome home! I grew up on one of these very same islands
I AM A SIMMONS GENEVA IS MY AUNT ,SHARON GREENE COUSIN
I just learned that my great grandmother from low country South Carolina was Gullah. The whole family actually. I want to know more about the dialect. I read that it is similar to Barbados dialect.
I can hear some of the Barbados accent but they also cook the same type of food too like macaroni pie which is like baking mac and cheese.
I bet the slaves that came over to the states came from the islands
Dah Bajanman that makes since now.
The P. O. W.'s from Charleston were taken to Barbados to grow the rice.
@@genejaytre there is no connection between the Gullah Geechee and bajans. Those are just similarities. Our ancestors came from completely different parts of Africa.
YES TRUE GEECHEE QUEEN HERE
Nice video I'm geechi and gullah myself and it's a pleasure to see our tradition on video
I love my people
Glad to hear about what is going on with other people in the south Carolina about other people and what is going on around this country thanks You Tube this histoey is a gift from God as Linda j peace God is love for all his children no matter who or what is going on God sees all
Good job brother and sister.
Hey from yall brother Usman from the other end other Atlantic Ocean (Senegal)
Love those video's that show's people on the right track-stay together shoulder to shoulder being strong-May God be with you all-love and respect from me
Beautiful how they were the only AA people to still have knowledge of their African culture, history, etc.....ionly know I'm of nigerian descent thru being Afro Cuban
Im geechee I live in Branchville SC...my fam from Charleston...but I know quite a few Afro Cubans...I practice lukumi for bout 4-5 years now.
I love my roots. Both of my parents are from South Carolina. 💪🏾❤️
I agree with you! My mother was from Columbia, SC. And I love RICE.
Very nice docu, loved it. ❤
Pure Gullah Love, all the way. I have to make my way there from Los Angeles and visit. True Dat
Interesting! I've never eaten alligator or shark, but I have eaten just about every other sea food like all types of crabs, mollusks (love oysters), fish, etc. We particularly go to Charleston for large blue crab and we used to regularly go crabbing in Murrell's Inlet. The Buyer's Market used to be a slave auction place, and most of us still call it the Black Market. Those sweet grass baskets are lovely. I would like to learn this art one day.
I remeber roasting a hog in the sand at a family reunion one year in Charleston... I had the best times down their in the summer when we went down!!! Charleston and Conway.
I really appreciate this video. TFS‼️🙏🏽
I can't wait to visit. Good documentary
This was absolutely beautiful❗️
Wonderful History. It makes me feel so proud. 😊 Thankful that I found this video!
Beautiful Story! Love you Sis!
Oh my! I’m sooooo glad the comments aren’t turnedoff! I havnt even read one but other videos I watched had em turned off🤷♀️
This video is lovely. Thank you for sharing your family and your culture! Just one correction; common confusion with the open-air market.. Slaves were never bought or sold in the market stalls. Just like you wouldn't buy a farmer at a farmers' market, you didn't purchase slaves at the "slaves' market." Enslaved Africans were sold closer to the water front. These market stalls were an open-air market where slaves were forced to do the selling of produce, meat, poultry, and seafood.
Good people, love this segment of African American culture.
I am Gullah and for me reading most of these comments makes me really sad. We are not from Africa our people was taken from here and placed in other parts of the world. My people had there own kingdom from Georgetown South Carolina to Wilmington North Carolina. I researched my family for over twenty years and I know the truth. We have been bamboozled... our land has been stolen. As long as you concentrate on Africa you will not understand that we were and are. .. prisoners of war!
Wait a minute.....let’s say we are indigenous to America and then we spread out, like your saying.....then explain to me how rice, black eyed peas, and islands full of people speaking african languages came to be in the Americas.🤔your people specifically had their own kingdom. Good for you but the rest of us know we are AFRICAN! And so what if we’re focusing on Africa? We’d rather connect with our roots so that we know where we are going, rather than be stagnant and oppressed like you and all the other people who claim to be ‘indigenous Americans/Indians’ or ‘non-african’.🤦🏾♂️
@@martinsmith2258 What does black eyed peas and rice have to do with being African ? (My people grew rice and plants used to make indigo)What islands are you speaking of that are full of people speaking African languages? Which African languages do they speak? (The people in the islands came to be in the Americas because they have always been a part of the Americas) I know that some have French, Spanish and English dialect because of colonization. How do you know for a fact that the rest of you are AFRICAN? Who told you that? How have you connected to your roots? Africa is a huge continent .What tribe/area are you from? Being that you are not stagnant, were are you going? (Specifically were are you going with your comment) Oh.. and I am far from oppressed. I and others like me have studied, researched, and spoken with our elders for confirmation! No sir...I don't need the oppressors to tell me who and what I am! Thank you and a have a blessed day/life.
My school bus used to drive by Backman’s Seafood on Sol Legare Island ❤
Love it 😍❤️
My moms side is Geechee too from Alabama they just refuse to acknowledge it.
Very much enjoyed this video. My mother's side is of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, and we have lived in South Carolina all our lives. We currently live in the midstate, near Columbia, but we regularly visit Charleston and were born in Myrtle Beach. My great aunts, great grandmother, grandfather were all from Charleston/Beaufort. I have always known we were of Gullah descent, (and Cherokee), but I really feel home whenever I return to the low-country.
hello I'm Ethel Debose my mother from Pawsly Island SC . her mother died down there I now located in pa . i want to come back to my mother home if I can find lodge to send a few nights . I am going to learn the ways n pass it on
Everybody’s arguing rather Gullah Geechee people are from Africa or Jamaica. The man in the video talks about conch soup which is a Jamaican dish and the dialect sounds more Jamaican than it does African. Just my observation but idk either way it’s beautiful ❤️
High power 🙏
I worked with a woman in Bronx, NYC who told me her accent/language was Geechee. I thought she was Jamaican 'cause the Jamaicans & her could communicate. I could not understand a word. She was from Charleston, SC. In the past, black churches separated "high yella" & darker blacks in Charleston. Learned this in an History of Ed course at CCNY. "Although the islands along the southeastern U.S. coast harbor the same collective of West Africans, the name Gullah has come to be the accepted name of the islanders in South Carolina, while Geechee refers to the islanders of Georgia."
oooouuu i miss de Gullah cuisine..
I have roots on James island, grand mother and great grandmother,grimball
Plantation WHALEY FAMILY
My mom makes conk soup. It's so good man.
+Yes Honey Yes I had developed an appetite for conch, but found it hard to get way out here in California....
ToniA5555 Yea, Even my mom had to go to South Carolina to get some and bring it back to New York with us.
I'm from the coastal area of South Carolina,Geechee Gullah to the core,don't want to no more than that. All ways remember slaves arrived on the coast NOT the inland. When the people were(supposedly) freed a massive amount stayed,thus creating the Gullah society. The original bloodline is from those coastal areas.
Heyy Family !!! 💜
WEBE GULLAH GEECHEE
WHERE CAN I FIND THE MUSIC IN THE BEGINNING? 🖤🖤🖤
man I miss north Charleston
Im Gullah geechee on my mom side, from Sc.
Backman and little me. what was that 8 years ago I loved going and being related to the owner
I miss home huger sc mt pleasant
Remember Joe's Fish Mkt in Savannah ga on west anderson @West Broad in the 70s?
im going to the chuck on the 7th of October
St. Helenas Island #Gullahroots🍃
Lovely.
Where can i get the end song i love it.i O only know one song that's African if you want ill write the words for yall
A Soldier Story😎
just found out on ancestors I'm geechie
welcome back home
What is name of the song near the end of the video?! Omg its amazing. I need it asap.
Sounds just like a Bahamian
The people from the southeast, especially The Sea Islands, are the same people even Indigenous language is the same but The Caribbean People dialect is just stronger.
They took a lot of The Gullah Gee Chee, The Aboriginal Indians, from The Sea Islands to The Caribbean and vice versa. Especially from Barbados. Not from Africa! They lied about that because it was all about stealing the land. WE been here.
Another research told of Haitians migrating from the Bahamas are of that group as well. Creole was part of the lingo.
I ah Geechie boi too! Bone n raise! ChuckTown Souf KaKaalaK!
I'm from Charleston and I heard of people who eat conch, but I never had it. The white people did the crayfish. I've had it before and it's good. I used to catch them in ditches and creeks when I was a youngin and keep them as pets until they died.
We are GeeCee, from Florida to the Carolinas.🤲 check the blood line.
I know this is a very old video but hope it is still being monitored. I am wondering if Conch is like Abalone when it is cooked. Does anyone know? I know they are shaped differently and have different shells, but they are both “footed” creatures like a big snail. Seems they might have a similar taste and texture.
I am interested in interviewing you for Strong Inspirations channel "Where black history lives"
Why is everyone saying low lands instead of low country.im from East over SC.i love the accent my family has.i moved to East over from tn.so much difference.i came here in 05 i still can't get my type of food down here cause they cook differently.
What part or parts of Africa are the Gullah people from?
All that land black people own business
slaves were not sold at the market street "slave market " Goods were sold there but prior to 1808 were sold at the Old Exchange ,Then after 1856 a law was passed the barracoons" Spanish for slave holding areas, were on Queen State and Chalmers Streets but no longer allowed in public
Thank you for the vid
thanks for watching
Who is music by?
To my Gullah/Geechees... The name Gullah is in the Strong's Bible dictionary as a Hebrew name on the Hebrew section 1353 (Please look this up for yourselves)
. Yah'll (we) are Hebrews. Our names were not mis-pronounced as Angola or Golas although some of our ancestors were from there. Geechees are the Yamasee or Yahmassee (Yah) (Yahweh) who were also Hebrews (Maroons, Guale, Yamacraw, Creek Aborigines) Cum-by-Yah, Ah-ha-Yah, We-Ben-Yah (We Son of Yah), Hallelu-Yah
My father is geechie and my grandma
I can't get there but do yall sell stuff online. I love the baskets and I want seasonings. Come on put up a website make some money. I not geecher but I love homemade stuff
That’s my great grandmother at 8:31
Namaste