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Heritage Tour: Gullah Heritage Trail Tours

Gullah Heritage Corridor

SPANISH WELLS

JONESVILLE

GARDNER

STONEY

MARSHLAND

CHAPLIN

GRASSLAWN

MITCHELLVILLE

BAY GALL

SQUIRE POPE

Definition: What Is Gullah?

“culture comprising of a system of beliefs, customs, artforms, foodways, and language

practiced among descendants of West Africans who settled along the coasts of North Carolina,

South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.”

Gullah Cultural Legacies at xi.

Marsh Tackies

Saltmarsh Scene

BATEAU

Water Mellon Truck

First African Baptist Church on Sapelo Island Built ca 1900

Artist Rendering of FAB Before 1967

Traditional Graveyard/CEMETERY

Gullah

Den, Fox staat fuh talk. E say to eself, e say, “Dish yuh Crow duh ooman, enty? Ef a kin suade um fuh talk, him haffuh op’n e mout, enty? En ef e op’n e mout, enty de meat fuh drap out?”

Fox call to de Crow: “Mawnin tittuh,” e say. “Uh so glad you tief da meat fum de buckruh, cause him bin fuh trow-um-way pan de dog…E mek me bex fuh see man do shishuh ting lukkuh dat.”

Crow nebbuh crack e teet! All-time Fox duh talk, Crow mout shet tight pan de meat, en e yez cock fuh lissin

English

Then, Fox started to talk. He said to himself, he said, “This here Crow is a woman, not so? If I can persuade her to talk, she has to open her mouth, not so? An if she opens her mouth, isn't it true the meat will drop out?”

Fox called to the Crow: “Morning girl,” he said. “I am glad you stole that meat from the white man, because he would have thrown it away to the dog…It makes me vexed to see a man do such a thing as that.”

Crow never cracked open her teeth! All the time Fox was talking. Crow’s mouth was shut tight on the meat, and her ears were cocked to listen.