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Think of a time back on before yonder, when the slave ships were sailing in the ports of Charleston and Savannah. What they thought they we bringing through were slaves, but what they didn’t know was they were bringing through a rich culture that would flourish for quite some time. Throughout ages people have always stated that Gullah was just a language, when Gullah is indeed a way of life. The Gullah Heritage is revealed through their history, their culture and their language.
Gullah itself goes way back to slavery times when African Americans were being captured and brought to America to be sold into slavery. Rice planters in the south needed the labor on their rice plantations and they thought “Slaves were far more profitable than any other form of labor” (Sumpter 1). They also chose blacks because they were resistant to tropical fevers where Europeans weren’t. It was said by Jenkins that “During the beginning of the Civil War plantation owners abandoned their plantations along with their slaves” (Jenkins 306) leaving them with the Northern military occupation. The Northerners ...

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