Gullah Heritage Trail Tours

10/27/2024

Gullah Culinary Griot: Vertamae Smart-Grovenor Books To Keep In Your Kitchen

Click to read: https://www.blacksouthernbelle.com/gullah-culinary-griot-vertamae-smart-grovenor-books-to-keep-in-your-kitchen/

10/26/2024

The Beaufort county council meeting was packed with residents eager to speak about a potential golf course on St Helena Island, South Carolina on 8 April. At stake was the future of a 500-acre property known as Pine Island Plantation/St Helenaville, where a developer had plans of building a golf course.

Those who were against the development of the property cited “backroom shenanigans”, a reference to alleged deals that the developer made with elected officials in a nearby town to garner their support for his plan, and the need to protect the local community. “We’re asking that you listen to the 20,000 people who signed a petition saying that we don’t want this,” Marque Fireall, a St Helena Island resident said.

The people in favor of the golf course argued that the development could bring needed infrastructure, resources and jobs to the island. “I think that the CPO should be abolished,” said the real estate investor Jesse Gantt about the “cultural protection overlay”, the island’s zoning law that bans the development of golf courses and gated communities. “It doesn’t allow me to do what I need to do with my property.” Local zoning ordinances, he said, prevented him from building tiny houses for veterans on his St Helena land.

Residents of St Helena are divided over a proposed golf course, illustrating a wider tug of war over the island’s future

10/23/2024

10/23/2024

10/14/2024

Information link: https://tinyurl.com/IAAMHistory14Oct

Bring your old family documents and photographs and head on down to the International African American Museum today (Oct 14th) between 10 am and 3 pm EST.

This scanning event is FREE and will be held in the public Garden Level of the museum.

Let's capture some today!!

Younger family members can join too- there will be plenty of fun activities to do – making this a day for the whole family!

There will be food trucks, free water & snacks, and music.

*Acceptable Documents & Images
Church Obituaries
Funeral Programs
Birth Records
Delayed Birth Records
Marriage Records
Death Records
Pre-1970 Family Photographs
Pictures of Old Black Charleston (neighborhoods, businesses, etc.)
Family Bibles (with family birth, marriage, and death entries)
Slavery-related documents

Location:
The International African American Museum
Garden Level
14 Wharfside Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401

10/03/2024

The celebration is almost here—3 days left until the Fish and Grits Music Festival! 🎉 Join us for a day of live performances, delicious food, and a taste of Gullah culture.

🎟️ Get your tickets now: https://bit.ly/3J5MO85

09/23/2024

The Gullah are an African American ethnic group who predominantly live in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. states of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, within the coastal plain and the Sea Islands.
The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of Africans who were ens|aved on the rice, indigo and Sea Island cotton plantations of the lower Atlantic coast. Many came from the rice-growing region of West Africa. The nature of their enslavement on isolated island and coastal plantations created a unique culture with deep African retentions that are clearly visible in the Gullah Geechee people’s distinctive arts, crafts, foodways, music, and language.
Gullah Geechee is a unique, creole language spoken in the coastal areas of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The Gullah Geechee language began as a simplified form of communication among people who spoke many different languages including €uropean s.lave traders, s|ave owners and diverse, African ethnic groups. The vocabulary and grammatical roots come from African and European languages. It is the only distinctly, African creole language in the United States and it has influenced traditional Southern vocabulary and speech patterns.

09/05/2024

Centimeter by centimeter, local archaeologist Katherine Seeber has spent years unearthing the legacy of a once-vibrant community of Mitchelville on Hilton Head.

08/29/2024

African American Contraband Camps Turn into Successful Townships

Click to read:
https://www.blacksouthernbelle.com/african-american-contraband-camps-turn-into-successful-townships/

08/22/2024