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Gullah of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

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  • Опубліковано 17 сер 2024
  • Erik Hastings experiences Gullahs rich history and culture on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Erik visits the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn, the Stoney-Baynard Ruins, and the Mitchelville schoolhouse, site of the Souths first freedmans village. Historians Dr. Emory Campbell and Louise Cohen give a first-hand account of Gullah heritage from rice plantation origins to current Gullah Heritage Trail Tours.
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  • @melissageiger71
    @melissageiger71 3 роки тому +4

    I'm from, and am currently sitting in Jasper county South Carolina... it's magnificent living here.
    I'm white, but I grew up here and went to public school here....we had the best school lunch on earth! I didn't realize till I was an adult that I was learning all kinds of Gullah culture... I just knew these teachers and kids as MY teachers and friends that I loved.. I didn't know how special it all really was.
    My mom died when I was 20, in ('92') so my older brother, whom had worked on Daufuskie island for 10 years or so, moved us over there.. that was just what I needed then...but again, at just 20, I still didn't realize how amazing it was... I moved away, to Baton Rouge for 20 years and came back with two daughters in tow lol...I learned some totally different culture in Louisiana as well, and I'm rich because of it...rich in what I have learned about people..I thank God for all that people have shared with me, unselfishly...and I'm glad to be back in the Lowcountry...
    My brother never left Daufuskie, so thankfully, I still get to visit there too..
    ❤️ 🌙🌴

    • @jeffmartin8924
      @jeffmartin8924 3 роки тому

      I know what you're talking about bro. I lived on Hilton Head in the mid 70's. I'm a white guy and my best friend was black and was from Bluffton. Arthur (Cass) Grant. 90% of the employees at the Hyatt Palmetto Dunes were black. (I believe the Hyatt is no longer there) Employees got free golf. I was the only white guy in room service. No racism. Everybody was friendly. Highway 278 was a 2 lane highway. Hilton head had no street lights and no traffic lights. A little different today. lol. Still Beautiful! We rented a small house on Honey Horn Plantation in 1975 for $150 a month. No rental application, No deposit...Just drop off the rent each month. We use to watch polo matches out of the living room window. I know it's unbelievable but It's true! At the time you could rent a one bedroom condo in Harbor Town with a view of the lighthouse for $350 a month.

  • @bheadh
    @bheadh 12 років тому +7

    For years. The day is comming soon "when we done put 'em back up wey de sposda go". BTW "kumbaya" is a Gullah song. The legendary "boogie-man/ booga hag are Gullah legends! God bless the Gullah People!

  • @jakeblues1295
    @jakeblues1295 13 років тому +4

    I'm from South Carolina and I can remember throughout elementary school a gullah story teller would come and I swear you could only understand maybe a 10th of what they said.

  • @Mrcstigallese
    @Mrcstigallese 14 років тому +5

    @HipHopIsInMyNYBlood Also the runaway Gullahs and Geechees ran to Florida and the Bahamas. We actually call them Maroons. There they met up with the Seminole Indians and lived and bred with them. This is where Black Seminoles come from. They also founded Fort Mose', the first free Black town during slavery. So we were definitely fighters and a force to be reckoned with but those on the Islands were there originally because of the tropical climate great for rice crops (Marshland, heat, etc...).

  • @cynthiataylor8247
    @cynthiataylor8247 5 років тому +1

    I love learning about the Gullah Geechee. Nation. I remember my father talking about He Geechee loving rice okra and slab beacon also white rice or okra soup .The stories he use to tell about Sumter South Carolina. Thank you for this learning page. I want to learn more.

  • @bheadh
    @bheadh 12 років тому +15

    I have lived on Hilton Head for 30 years. When I moved here there were 6000 year-round residents, @ least 3000 were/are Gullahs. Now there are 35,000 year-rounders, mostly white retirees. The over-development of this once pristine place has RUINED the natural beauty & disrupted the Gullah culture. Many who have lived on their land for centuries are being pushed off their land by greedy developers & unfair taxes & tax "laws". I have many Gullah friends & have worked with these blessed people.cont

  • @Mrcstigallese
    @Mrcstigallese 14 років тому +3

    @HipHopIsInMyNYBlood The West Africans who are now the Gullah/Geechee people were mostly brought through Sullivan's Island in Charleston,SC and spread throughout the Gullah/Geechee Nation (Sea Island from Jacksonville,NC to Jacksonville, FL and 30 to 35 miles inland). Malaria made it where the Masters would only spend the colder months with the enslaved. This is how we preserved our culture. You can got to Facebook and join the Gullah/Geechee Nation page to learn more... Thanx!!

  • @trevycoley83
    @trevycoley83 15 років тому +2

    Nice job. I'm from New Orleans but I'm due for a trip over that way, never been.

  • @kevinforbes7252
    @kevinforbes7252 8 років тому +5

    they sound just like
    my relatives i have in the Bahamas almost %100 identical accent
    turks and caicos islands also has the same accent met a charleston S.carolina man tonight on a Jacksonville Fl bus as soon as i heard him speak the hairs on my hair raised up
    had to ask if he was
    Charleston or the Bahamas

    • @islandgyal5269
      @islandgyal5269 6 років тому

      Kevin Forbes that's because they took our aboriginal ancestors from the eastern coast to the Caribbean and brought them back to the eastern coast,and that is how the"slave trade out of Africa"story begin...we are the aboriginals of the Americas

    • @invisibleman3441
      @invisibleman3441 4 роки тому

      @NYNews I just got your reply I haven't watch this video in a minute and I still remember the night 3 years ago in Jacksonville FL when I met and heard my first Charleston Gullah since then I met one more in another part of Florida where he always gets confused with being from the Caribbean but a response to your comment everyone might hear something different when they listen to different speakers but I knew 2 guys from the Turks and Caicos and their accents sounded almost identical to the folks I know or knew from the islands of the Bahamas both nation's are right next to each other they were both one time British colonies now only one is a British colony and to me south Carolina deep Gullah accent people ,Bahamas and Turks and Caicos sound almost identical with just a few differences

  • @nola305
    @nola305 14 років тому +2

    This is similar to the Creoles of Cane river in Louisiana (see the youtube video). The Creoles there would NEVER let their traditions and culture fade like what i see in South Carolina, and their land wouldn't be taken away either.

    • @Gullahbae-xm6ms
      @Gullahbae-xm6ms 3 місяці тому

      Our culture is very alive in SC and who in the hell wants to live in Louisiana! Nobody!

  • @jeffreywilson1867
    @jeffreywilson1867 5 років тому +1

    My culture my ppls

  • @ToniA5555
    @ToniA5555 10 років тому +2

    I am from California, but I lived at MCAS Beaufort and worked on Hilton Head for over a year. What I saw there in the late 1970s was that most of the visible population was rich white people living in villas. The black people were not as visible to me, and the ones I did have contact with seemed mostly to be living as they would have in the late 1800s, way off the beaten path and in not-so-modern homes.

    • @NybKww
      @NybKww 9 років тому +2

      A lot of geechee people live in edisto island and the islands straight off of SC. that's where they make and sell a lot of the geechee baskets, sing and have all of the art.

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 Рік тому

    Is there not a full documentary on the Island and various Peoples whom lived there? I do know a Union General ordered a land/plats, roads, for the Black Community he found to be living in tragic conditions, he took the land portion from a Confederate General. That's about all I've discovered.

    • @Erikthetravelguy
      @Erikthetravelguy  Рік тому

      Beth…we looked for one as well and couldn’t find anything if any prominence.

  • @HipHopIsInMyNYBlood
    @HipHopIsInMyNYBlood 14 років тому +2

    @Mrcstigallese I was taught that the Gullah people were runaway slaves who moved to the islands and were so fierce (for lack of a better word) that the scared the whites from coming to mess with them. By keeping them away, they preserved their culture. no?

  • @curtistaylor7938
    @curtistaylor7938 3 роки тому

    YAh🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

  • @Mrcstigallese
    @Mrcstigallese 14 років тому

    @pang5 LOL!!! No problem!!

  • @BKinNY
    @BKinNY 12 років тому +1

    We , maybe you, not we!

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 Рік тому

    160 years ago. With a continued suppression until JFK and Robert Kennedy's intervention. 💖☘️

  • @Thamikaroxy
    @Thamikaroxy 12 років тому +1

    The interview/narrator is extremely annoying and borders on rude. He's constantly interrupting, interjecting and the loud folk music in the background is too much. The gullah should fire Erik Hasting.

  • @slicvic2012
    @slicvic2012 9 років тому +4

    THEY ARE THE ISRAELITES!!

  • @johnhorse8627
    @johnhorse8627 5 років тому

    lol are indigenous and reasons why they are rooted in Africa is because they where kidnapped from here in the U.S.

    • @eawatahatanguatama383
      @eawatahatanguatama383 5 років тому +2

      No the fuck they wasnt. Shut up with that we came from Africa not no America