History of the Gullah Geechee Nation Part 1

[@AngelicaChosen]

Mother often says that her grandmother was famous for this qoute, "YINNA CHIRREN FROM DUH GULLAH RACE". I currently reside in The Bahamas 🇧🇸 ❤

[@lovesyah4618]

Gullah Geechee here from S.C. low country.😄🙏🏽♥️

[@abdullahdawudbryant6871]

What part of the SC? Alot of my family are from the Carolina area, and I've always associated my grandparents with the Gullah people

[@Theking87rb54]

@@abdullahdawudbryant6871Beaufort or Charleston probably

[@KrissyTheIntrovert]

My family is Gullah Geechee from Georgia who migrated down to Miami (Homestead) with the crop picking: my momma, aunties, and uncles still talk with the Gullah Geechee twang 'cause that's all we know🤜🏾🤎🤛🏽

[@shibainu2006]

Dad had recently told me we're Gullah Geechee, and I'm trying to learn more about it now. Kinda upset I went so long without knowing and that I had to ask.

[@jazzzz6243]

Me too! I was just told I have Gullah geechee lineage thru my grandfather & im on this video just like you learning more about it! Better late than never!

[@francinealmestica2528]

🇻🇮 And St Croix U S Virgin Islands. Very similar to how we talk which is called Crucian.

[@ConsecratedToGod3383]

Yess... The Bahamas as well we speak the same way🇧🇸🇧🇸

[@shelmaholland6946]

It's similar to Caribbean pattwa

[@unabinyah2916]

Yep the are all in the same linguistic family group.

[@fruitfest5767]

ok totally not on topic but i love ur eyes ! they have a nice shape to them ^-^
also this video was very informational and helpful cuz i always wanted to learn abt gullah geeche ever since my little brother started telling me abt it

[@kjlockley1246]

I really enjoyed how closely your description of our people matched mine.

[@ascentttt]

And Jamaica ❤

[@dan-patrickobrien3580]

I'm a native of the lowcountry and up until recently have I been seeing more and more states added to the GGC list. Outside of GA and SC the culture rarely exists. Like where in NC and outside of North Florida where does it exist. Being from the lowcountry I've been up and down the coast and nohing strikes me as Gullah about anywhere in coastal NC, coastal NC doesn't even feel like home.

[@katherandefy]

Excellent synopsis !!!

[@Tescorpio]

Excellence speaker

[@saraperry2865]

My ancestors was geechee but was also Bahamian I believe it's the same people

[@unabinyah2916]

Yep many Gullah people have Bahamian roots! This is because the first plantation owners in Charelston moved from the Bahamas and brought the Africans they were human trafficking with them. To this day, the Gullah Geechee language is most likened to Bahamian Creole.

[@BRYCONIC]

I have ancestors who cam straight from Barbados #Wingates

[@marcusdubarry5737]

Do you know what Dogla is?

[@Justjewels0]

We are INDIGENOUS

[@hanad216]

The true history of African Americans: around 3500 years ago the people who started the Volta-Congo languages spread from the Gulf of Guinea and landed at north eastern South America and than spread from there building the first civilizations of the Americas such as Olmec and Mayan. The African American people are an extension of those people. They spread into North America into two main areas, thro the Caribbean and into south eastern United States and from Mexico into California. Around 1300 AD they were join by a bit of Mande people but most African Americans come from the guale people that landed in and around Surinam 3500 years ago

[@marceloorellana5726]

🤦🏿

[@yusefnegao]

@@marceloorellana5726they are so embarrassing

[@Gullahbae-xm6ms]

We are talking about the Gullah community, not AAs. We come mostly from the rice coast and Angola. This is documented evidence.

[@yusefnegao]

@@Gullahbae-xm6ms you are correct especially the rice coast

[@DaddysLittleGirl1993]

What does you ancestry say? And how many of your relatives are Caribbean? Ancestry can be tracked through the census

[@unabinyah2916]

I posted my ancestry dna test a few years ago on here. If you go to my page, you should be able to find it. I also posted my genetic communities update is on my ig so feel free to follow there and see. I'm not Caribbean. Many Gullah people have ancestors who were trafficked from the Caribbean to what is now known as the Gullah Geechee Coridoor in the 1600s and early 1700s. Hope this helps!

[@AngelicaChosen]

Are The Gullah Geechee also from Ghana 🇬🇭.

[@realest242]

West Africa not sure Ghanas location on the coast but a lot of us descend from the west of Africa

[@Jo.Raquel]

No

[@Jo.Raquel]

@@realest242east.

[@blackfirst6669]

Bruh nobody didn’t migrate to the Caribbean we were also Amerindians in the Caribbean and we were slaves who was brought to the Caribbean. By the Spanish in Trinidad I know that for fact that’s why Spanish is the second language in Trinidad and look up amerindians you know what I’m talking about.

[@RA1N1TO]

No gullah geeche neva came in the Bahamas ? Know your history bahamian are descendent OF gullah geeche that is also seminole is well documented

[@Mintandroses3]

Spanish is not the second language in Trinidad

[@Gullahbae-xm6ms]

People Indigenous to the Caribbean didn’t speak Spanish. Spanish was brought to the Americas via colonization. You make no sense.

[@GeecheeSlomeezy]

That’s not true brotha my geechee family are not African

[@Michaeltison7]

Yes they are it’s Native American and African mixed it’s not possible for a whole group of people to use African language and not be African use common sense

[@ConsecratedToGod3383]

It is true please research I'm Bahamian as my ancestors were west African and Seminole slaves. We only speak Gullah/Geechee down here Das all we know.

[@GeecheeSlomeezy]

I didn’t say y’all family..I said MY FAMILY. And I know my families history. Some of you all may have African ancestors, I don’t respectfully. Placing blanket generalizations over people you don’t know is doing more harm than helping.

[@Keenan-X]

Yes my family always been here, I'm starting to realize ppl keep saying all gullah geechee are African which isn't true

[@Gullahbae-xm6ms]

You can’t be Geechee and NOT African. That’s makes no sense! And you look mostly of African descent based off of your picture 😂😂😂

[@RA1N1TO]

We don't sound alike we are rhe same people the gullah geeche is the descendent of the Bahamian we are from you guy not other way around

[@javionriley8739]

After the revolutionary war, the British people got kicked out and they took the slaves with them and was forced to the Bahamas. Therefore, y’all descend from black Americans via the Gullah geechee! Google is free to use same goes for Bermuda and Turks and Caicos.

[@antoniofokes5442]

We aren’t from Africa

[@Fuckoutmyface]

I thought they were from the Songhai empire in west Africa?