The History Of The Gullah: From Africa To America | Circle Unbroken | Timeline
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- 75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through Beaufort and the sea islands of South Carolina. This beautiful and picturesque tourist destination, by its unique history is the epicenter of the Gullah culture and the foundation of African American history; the result of the mingling of West African slaves with the plantation culture awaiting them in America.
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you guys have a beautiful culture ... as an Inuit "eskimo" ( and I say eskimo because it's basically the only way ppl know what an Inuit is) ... our ppl have been beat into religion , moved further and further north to the coldest part of the world and killed village by village ... but we are all still here because we are a lot more powerful than money could ever do for us
Hi. Lakota/Powhatan/Iriquios/Celtic mutt here. You might be surprised that more and more people are becoming aware that Eskimo is as perjoritive as Sioux (meaning Enemy in the patois of French-Algonquin) is. Inuit is the correct term to me. Just as Lakota (since I have no idea exactly WHICH sub-group i belong to though i feel strongly drawn to Oglala) is the correct term for the larger language and cultural group.
Nice to meet you, sister! We come essentially from the same inscrutable ancestors. May the Great Spirit watch over you in all the travels your moccosins take. May you be granted light and safe passage through this journey to the West and the lands where our ancestors are.
May your hunts be fruitful and feed you and your family. My son became a hunter officially this past hunting season with the sacrifice of the biggest doe of the season. He was initiated by me into the travels to become a hunter before he hit his first natal day. Luckily i did so ... his part Cherokee father was so excited he forgot to blood him when the doe fell. I am teaching my son to feel the mother and to thank our brothers and sisters who go so we may eat. I am watched over by Bison, Eagle and Hawk, Black Bear, Mountain Lion and Bobcat and Otter. Some may find my protectors too strong for such a skinny woman ... but in my life I have needed their strength.
Humans find a way to survive. "Culture" is the pattern of survival.
@@CatBuchanan I am Powhatan/Renape and French from my father and Choctaw/Chickasaw from my mother! It’s great to see other natives posting 🙃🙂What you said was so moving and SO TRUE! 💛Much love and BLESSINGS 💫
I have Gullah AND Inuit Eskimo Ancestors!💜
It’s unfortunate that people are truly not aware. I was surprised to come across an article about the word “Eskimo”. It was right bf I had my child so I would often love on her with Inuit kisses and taught her the proper word. Recently it occurred to me that even the concept might be offensive, especially if it was created by an oppressive culture. As a Black woman I understand how difficult it is to get people to understand offenses they will never experience or to care enough to even think about such a thing. We have a lot of work to do
My people!!! I’m proud to be Gullah! ✊🏾
Honoring His message of Hope and salvation through Faith in God YHVH Yeshua
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Me too. Longing to go further in studying our ancient culture. I'm geechie/gullah from grandfather.
#WEOUCHEA ma folks kumot subana eh Jacksonville deh...my bucket name was/is Ra'Mah Uganda even though i haven't heard that name in while...I'd love to go back to using it
Me too! I'm from Beaufort, SC ( BORN & Raised) so I can relate to this information. My mother used to be a secretary of Penn Center on St. Helena Island (Look up that history. Also located in Beaufort, SC). My sisters and I as well as the majority of our family members were exposed to a lot of our history because of our Mother's exposure to Penn School (My Grandmother matched with Dr. Martin Luther King from Penn School she used to tell us).
A lot of celebrities and athletes like Bill Cosby, Michael Jordan and others visited Penn Center in the 90's when they were in their prime.) Ron and Natalie (The creators of the famous Nickelodeon show Gullah Gullah Island) would visit Penn Center All the time when I was a little boy and performed every year at the Gullah Festival which was held at Penn Center and the Beaufort Waterfront Park where venders from everywhere (Jamaica, Africa, New York... You name it they were there) would participate every year!
Those were the good old days! There is a lot of "Black" History between Beaufort, SC and Charleston, SC. My younger Cousin will be working for the new African American Museum that's being built in Charleston, SC as I'm writing this. It's near completion so be on the lookout. Also, he (my younger cousin) created an interactive app for your smart phone that's connected with the museum. I'll keep you all posted on it 😉.
Yesss!
I'm born and raised in north Charleston. I'm originally from union hieghts, my whole family is geechee gullah. I am proud that this video was able to document our history of our people.
Me too. Htown. Salute Gullah Geechie
Beaufort, SC born and raised in
I love so much learning about my people. No matter which culture or region they are from! I consider that They are all mine. Our ancestors are shared as far as I am concerned and I love the idea of that! The fact that the Gullah were able to build such a community with rich traditions and observance of ancestral practices and culture is amazing and a blessing.
The Gullah people should definitely be a part of black history month
I lived in SC for a year and visited Charleston almost every weekend. Having grown up in the north I never knew about Gullah culture until going to Charleston. I met a lot of very kind and friendly Gullah people down there and came to appreciate their food and culture. Thank you Timeline for presenting this.
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Honoring His message of Hope and salvation through Faith in God YHVH Yeshua
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USA has lots of hidden treasures 💙🇺🇸
This video is a disrespect to real geechee not the federally recognized ones who are getting help from the government.
@@autochthonoushistory1 mmmmmm
Thanks for sharing history is truly to be taught . Doesn't matter where you are from . As a black man born and living in Jamaica 🇯🇲 this was so touching. Shalom aleichem
Tell them again the word... SHALOM! I DON'T THINK THEY FELT YOU! SHEMA O'ISRIEL!😐💯💥🔥
The true Jews Israelites Hebrews 😐💯💥🔥
Mash lom cha Mike ! 🥰
Not only from senegal.thousand or so years before.i believe that the pple who were made into slaves.were tribe of Israel.
@@sandraswift3489 mmmmmmmmh
I love my people. I’m so proud to be African American. ✊🏾💪🏾💯🥰💕🔥🔥🔥🔥
Geechees aren't Black Americans
😊❤This Beautiful
yes me to im from the kanuri tribe Nigeria and Angola and Gabon ...mother's side and father side..😊
I don't know where my people are "from" other than the United States. But I know I am of African descent; BLACK. And proud to be that.
I think it's wonderful you guys know where both your mother and father's people are from.
@@ShaneM420 DNA testing duh
It's a shame they never talked about the Gullah Wars. The two hundred years the South faught the escaped slaves and Seminole Natives.
I also thought the topic would be brought up. It's a lot of unknown and Untold American history.
Weren't the Seminole Indians the only tribe out of the 5 civilized tribes who kept their word w the freedman as in not kicking them off the lands they shared w them 🤔? . I haven't gotten that far in the book iam currently reading about those Tribes .
Gullah are the Black Seminole we are not African Hallelujah. The Gullah Wars were renamed the Seminole wars universities have acknowledged it but schools don’t teach it
Wow, thank you for sharing. Knowledge I may have never learned otherwise.
I am Gullah Geechee and I love our rich culture. Peace and Blessings 🙏🏾
This isn’t even geechee.You sure you are geechee? Real geechee don’t associate with africa or Sierra Leone.We know and understand that the Gullah geechee existed before we ventured to Sierra Leone and helped build it.Our people were Already in America.
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We ? So there's a group of sea Islanders that call themselves the real native americans? please elaborate, I didn't know there was another school of thought.
In 2004, I met a lady who thought I was from there we were chatting away in the dialect. She then told me of Gullah, my first hearing about it I am yet to visit. My birthplace is Tobago.
The Gullah ppl r African, and their genetics r from West Africa. What makes them different, is they are the only ppl who kept their tribal traditions from Africa. Respect to them for that!
They're a subgroup of african americans, we're a much more diverse ethnic group than the media likes to show
1 in 4 African Americans have Gullah roots, pretty cool
I wish they spoke Gullah in this. I lived in the Charleston area for about 14 years. It has a musical quality to it. You can actually find videos on TH-cam of people speaking Gullah. Charleston is surrounded by islands and there are subtle differences in the language from island to island. I love the baskets that they make and sell.
I was hoping there'd be Gullah in it. My family is from McClellanville, and my grandfather speaks it fluently and has a thick accent. It's the most soothing sound in the world.
If dem boi krak teef fa hunnuh, E wud not hab undastan we. Loddah y'all yeddi disyah language n be look'n fool up ouchea. Dey mey wan fa watah don de wuds dem fa hunnuh like I doin now, but wen de elder dem run dey mout, eben oda kinfolk kyan not mek out wat dey sey 😂
@@beautifulcaptive ❤️❤️❤️
@@omartistry, I can dig it! I would LOVE to hear it spoken while having some good grub 4REAL 💖💜💖!
I think you mean geechie i know I didn't spell it right
We love and cherish you our brothers and sisters in the US, from Sierra Leone
We love y'all too I'm from Macon ga in the Americas which is Babylon and us black people are the real jews of the bible and Mexicans and Puerto Rican and native indians we all belong to the 12 tribes of Israel.
@@williecoley7495 the real people of God comes out of the Kongo
Love and cherish you all in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 too! Growing up on Wadmalaw Island in Charleston, South Carolina we've always heard that most of us were from Sierra Leone and were brought here because they grew rice. My Salone ancestors made South Carolina rich with Carolina Gold Rice. I've done my Maternal DNA test and it leads straight back to Sierra Leone. Temne and Mende tribes. I often wonder if I still have blood relatives there.
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@@williecoley7495 check out Stephen Darby's who are we.....hebrews are from Africa and went through the slave trade
Bless the Gullah Nation & my home state of South Carolina 🤞🏿❤🤞🏿❤
Blessed to have been born in SC as well … proud to be part of the Gullah nation.♥️
I just busted out during Peas and Rice like I was back in school. Thank you for uploading this and sharing our culture!!!
I am from the Caribbean, and was overjoyed at the information; never knew about Gullah people from Africa; thank you very much Timeline! Your documentation is rich and loaded with information
@iris maxwell, what Caribbean island are you from. And do you know of any ties to Africa from there?
@@fambultik-leadingafricanhe6341 the connection goes through out... u see the islands as a whole were in most instances a drop off point for first buck breaking and tagging..and the slaves to be b then brought to the states to be sold for prime dollar.... it didn't work... but... that was the system... so if you are doing any digging...don't leave out the islands...we might have blood related cousins in Brazil right now asking the same questions about us..
There is a strong connection between South Carolina and Barbados. Both were rice growing colonies to which Africans were exported who came from Angola.
@@shaunastokes1906 people were sent to Europe and from Europe they made it to west Africa.The people came from Canada,The Carolina’s and the carribeans.NO AFRICANS CAME HERE.
@@RaMahUganda The slaves stories are non sense.Where is your genealogy? Stop telling fake stories you heard from the pale man and find your own HIS story or genealogy.WE DONT ALL HAVE THE SAME HIS STORY.The pale man mislead you.
I learned of the Gullah two years ago, from all places Netflix. It was a beautiful movie. Sad I'm black and didn't know of them before. So much history we are not learning even from our own country. Sad!!
I'm white and I learned about them in elementary school.
Then go learn it yourself. Why are u relying on “this country”
@@Patrick3183 ???
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I've known about the gullah for a number of years now, but this documentary has help no more about their customs and traditions whereas before I I only knew they lived in South Carolina and the islands nearby.
@@petebondurant58 You must be from the southeast then. That's typically something taught in South Carolina elementary schools in very small part, but not taught at all as you go further north and further west.
The first lady said that the roots of Gullah culture begin in Sierra Leone, Gambia, Senegal, and Angola. Going by the song she said was popular among them then, which those in the video sang, it's clear the slaves were predominantly Yoruba. Few keywords from the song include "Alafia" (meaning Well-being), Ese (meaning Thanks). These are Yoruba words. If she is right about where the slaves were originally from, then it's possible they were Yoruba people that were part of the former Oyo Empire which extended as far as parts of Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Benin. She did include part of present day Nigeria as a possible origin.
Absolutely correct.
Alafia is a Krio word in Sierra Leone too
I knew it. Those were definitely Yoruba words
@@kadijatumvkargbo5564 yes but the way they use it in the video is the way the Yoruba people of south western nigeria would say it
Exactly
Thank you so much for sharing your culture and knowledge. I am a Gullah descedent and so proud!
So sad that more people would never have things like this come up as suggested content on their timeline. A video on the Gullah wars I watched earlier brought up my first EVER content warning from TH-cam itself and I’ve watched videos explaining cults and murderers and never had such a thing. Something has to change 😥
I love 💕 my people grew up so proud to be Gullah I am sad America does not honor the Gullah as a culture more black Americans need to know where they come from it's so important gives people some sense of belonging. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Indeed.
And most black american in the southern slaves Came from Angola🇦🇴 and Congo drc and not sierra leon or any wa nation most wa slaves went to the Caribbean islands.
My ancestors are from west Africa, Gullah people.reside in Sc.
@14:19 I can't imagine standing in chains like that, re-enacting those scenes. Must send a chill up your spine.
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This is why black Americans wear so much jewelry around their necks and body, its their history of being in chains
It’s amazing how some people think they can tell us who we are. Some of these comments are disrespectful. Still we rise as Gullah Geechee people. We will continue to teach our children and tell our own stories.
It’s sad how y’all accept this non sense of a video and this coming from a person who’s family is straight from the Carolina’s.GEECHEE ARE AMERICANS.THE STONO ARE MELANATED THEY ARE APART OF THE GULLAH.They gave you your his story in reverse and y’all accept it and continue to spew it.Without your own genealogy everything you think is inaccurate and false.His story is merely made up from whoever’s perspective is telling it.We do not all have the same his story but we think we do and walk around like we do cause we are too lazy to do research.Their aren’t even records of slave ships from Africa
My Grandma had her Own words. And her Own way of speaking.
The BLOOD of my ancestors CRIED OUT upon watching and HEARING all from this wonderful video. May we NEVER forget. Asé
This should be shown in every US school.
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The Gola language is spoken in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Ivory Coast
Adebode we fambol... Se'Lione is our sistah city back home!!
Sierra Leone Krio is mostly influenced by Jamaican patois
It takes many generation to overcome this type of type of abuse on humanity... This generation can make the different that will last onto the next generations. The internet has open the door to tell your story.
That would be great if they'd stop hiding views:/.
Yeah but demons are walking and gov/elites trying to further divide as well as fuel hate between many. We need to all bond together, agree we have some diff opinions (we all are diff yet the same!]. We have a common enemy. To survive we must stop the hate and come together.
Great documentary very emotional sad truth, we love ❤️ you our people Gullah. But remember Gullah people are not only on Serria Leone they are in Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso & Ghana
U wrong too most Gullah Geechee came from Angola 🇦🇴 not West Africa,
@@akakaskie I’m here in west Africa telling you the truth & you are saying I’m wrong ? I used to speak their dialect when I was in Ivory Coast 🇨🇮. Do your research properly
@@warzonenature3370 do u use any social media? I need to tell u about gullah cullture More Angolan were leave in Sc Overall, by the end of the colonial period, African arrivals in Charleston primarily came from Angola (40 percent), Senegambia (19.5 percent), the Windward Coast (16.3 percent), and the Gold Coast (13.3 percent), as well as the Bight of Benin and Bight of Biafra in smaller percentages. important
1:31 is my Mom and Step-dad making the sweet grass baskets! I wasn't expecting to see that when I searched up this video. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Gullah/Geechee: Disyah be mi fambly culchea. Eny bodi fwom de low kuntry be Gullah geechee! (Black Americans). De Bukrah wan fa teef we identity during maffah, but den we den wen n make we culchea. De wey we krak teef, de wey we nyam, de wey we sing, dey wey we dance. Allah dem cyan be twaced bak to de muddah lan!
English: This is my family’s culture! Anybody that’s is from the low country is Gullah Geechee! (Black Americans). The white colonizers wanted to take my people’s identity during enslavement, but then we created this culture to preserve what we would have fully lost. From the way we talk, eat, sing, and dance. All can be traced back to Africa!
Haha oh my goodness, that's just ridiculous. Gotta love how a "dialect" can be literally anything, ehnklooding de speak up den dere.
@@peterstromboli4835 nlʉr mbùu
I understood 90 to 95% of your speech (or our speech)
@@donell360 It’s an African based ENGLISH creole. Most people who speak English should understand it for the most part (if spoke slowly). Just like Jamaican patois. However, just like the previous comments some people still don’t think it’s a real language because they can read my comments. But then I speak to them in public and they go “huh”?. “E be comyeah dem who wah fa yeddi de wuds ouchea mout, yet ak like dey binyah n know wah e sey wah e mean” (It be non Geechee people that want to hear the language, but then act like they can been fluent in the language) just cause I water it down. If you want to learn the language please know that reading it is much easier than hearing an elder speak it fluently. And correct anyone who tries to disrespect our language.
@@omartistry researching my family history I found out my father's side is from fayettville n.carolina and I have family in south Carolina so I wonder if I'm part gullah geechi
I am proud to come from gullah geechee ppl, I am from south Carolina and my grandfather’s family is from charleston sc. I love charleston
Omg I learned funga alafia (spelling sorry) ashay ashay in elementary school. We sang it all the time. Wow did that bring memories back.
I got chills as I sung along❤
The narrator is an eloquent and captivating spokesperson for this ghastly and terrible part of American history.
@Michele Thomas watch this film too to see the narrator. Anita Singleton-Prather also known as Aunt Pearlie Sue, from Beaufort, SC: th-cam.com/video/Dwi3iimgSWc/w-d-xo.html
Is never any emotion we just tell it like it is the ones that have a problem with it is the ones that they know their family prospered off of slave labor the ones that innocent children were murdered Lynch sodomized with no apology I say when you say it's too much emotion it's not nearly enough because.you never say that to other cultures just the African Americans only. But God is so good justice will prevail every man every woman will give accountability for what they have done. There's a verse in the Bible when God says I may not punish you for your deeds. but I will punish your offspring down to the 6th and 7th generation and that day is here. Knowledge is power what a wonderful documentary 😇👌🏼📽️📺♥️💚💛
I started thinking (while watching this rich history documentary) how White Conservative Women (mostly) are fighting to keep this type of history out of the schools and libraries. We didn’t get the true teachings of history in schools and they want to keep it that way. What a selfish thing to do. To deprive your children of learning about a variety of cultures, foods, ways and beliefs, etc. is ensuring generations of people ignorant to truths about where each person comes from and their contributions to the world.
Or better yet, denying any of this stuff is African in origin. Lmao you know your country is delusional when you actually have White people claiming that they made up all forms of popular music, as if Africans didn't influence any part of American culture. I'm not joking either; most White people/kids I know actually think popular dance moves just came out of thin air when they're so obviously African.
They don't want their children to know that yt people are monsters who perpetrated crimes on humanity and still do. They want to erase all the horrible things they did to black people.
Omg the hymns sang in this sent me to a place I’ve never been, thank u for sharing your insight❤️
That Peas & The Rice Joint Was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤣
This is a great history which has enlightened me about the importance of the Gullah People and its cultural influence within the Bahamas.
To be honest I've never heard of the Gullah. I'm from Ghana and their culture seems verys African. From the Kente, their body their headwraps, the pots they were cooking in ect.
In the first song they sung they spoke yoruba a language native to the yoruba people of south western nigeria
That is because they are descendants of West Africa
Beautiful! Hello from Lady island SC
Given that my name is Gordon Ullah (GULLAH) I wholly approve of this!
I knew an older lady who lived close to us when I was a kid. She was nice. I use to hear her tell my mom, "I gwing on home now." She didn't know when she was born and she always talked about Gen. Forrest come back through here n we won't have nothing. I found she was talking about a Gen. who fought in the Civil War in 1861-1864.
Great documentary but misleading title. Very little is said about the ACTUAL GULLAH PEOPLE, their unique traditions, their food, their creole language etc. etc. Gullah is not synonymous with African American, something this documentary seems to imply. The Gullah people mostly worked on isolated coastal/ island plantations so, compared to other African Americans, they had some distance from white people and this enabled them to maintain some of their indigenous African practices, linguistic influences and traditions - hence why they have a very unique culture. The is a documentary about the transatlantic slave trade, not the Gullah people and their traditions.
Thank you for YOUR TRUTHFUL input. This is what happens when OUR story is told by those that look like US & those who look NOTHING like us that are paid by 'THEM' to push the false narrative 🤦🏽. Not kool at all. 🤔 Being as you're an Elder, do YOU believe the 'Trans-Atlantic' Slave Trade from Afrika happened? It seems quite impossible to have that many 'slaves' on such a small vessel CONsidering the vessel could sink from the weight of supplies, crew & alleged 'captives', extremely close quarters, human waste & the possibilities of dis-ease 🤔. Or we were already here & been here? Thank you in advance for your response! 1.08.2022
@@theseklownskrazyasfuq344 believe greed not even hidden today, forced over crowding vessels, under supplied you die you go overboard! Believe it cruelty to the far extremes.
And the doc never missed a opportunity for singing and dancing. So dishonest!
@@theseklownskrazyasfuq344 Your completely right. Blacks were already here. One just has to read the journals of Columbus, Cortez and the other european conquerors. They wrote about all the black Indians being observed. They were told by the other Indian tribe, they would here before our ancestors. Black people are the indigenous to all land masses
@@a.andrechisholm8528 so you did not come from Africa ? The native peoples of the Phillipines, Pacific Ocean islands, Andaman islands of India, Solomon Islands, the first Maoris were dark skinned they are all black and they came out of Africa. Our people were ancient sea travellers before the white man. Your roots remain in the land mass now called Africa.
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Schools really need to teach kids ab culture anyones infact because I feel it will give kids more respect for ppl
Growing up in S Caolina, I hitched rides on shrimp trawlers to beloved Dafuskie to fish wit da foke and their houses with jewel colored doors to ward off haints. Boat was the only access for generations, and many of us locals spoke Geechie. Pat Conroy and John Voight shined a spotlight on it in their 80s successful movie.
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I enjoyed this video. I love history. I am black American from Texas, but now you make me want to know if any of my ancestors were Gullan. I will be asking around. I did not know that 75% of American blacks were Gullan. I knew my ancestors were Nigerian by DNA testing. Keep making the videos and helping us learn black history in the USA.
Yess Gullah people migrated all over US !
You are most likely Gullah; our ancestry is from Western Africa..!!!
@@Gullah_James1962 We checked our DNA. Our ancestors are Nigerian- Ibu tribe.
Nigeria is in West Africa. That's right in the west where most of the Gullah people were kidnapped. I lived in Europe for nearly 30 years. I have a lot of African friends from Gambia and South Sudan. The Sudanese people in Africa speak Arabic. The Gambia people speak a warloof, which is similar to the gullah language. This is how I discovered most of the Gullah culture; long before the Internet.!?
I used to watch Gullah Gullah Island🥺...this doc is amazingly informative
I'm from Macon ga the songs sounds like the ones they sang down there and also my grandma use to take us to those tent church service in the woods. I know the black slaves are the real jews from the bible. Don't know body love the heavenly father more than us because we are his people.
Charleston and Savannah are considered cousin cities. So, you will find remnants of Gullah culture in both places, as well as the sea islands of Georgia (Tybee Island) and coming across into Hilton Head and other places.
I am the descendant of the Gullah/Mende people. The blood remembers because I feel the sorrow and grief of my people today.
my great granny i knew who was ghanaian she was from the gullah islands.
My granny spoke of her grandma and i use the recipes as a catering chef. My granny told me all my life i spoke as a geechie. and when people here me talk in chicago they always ask where im from. love this video. so wonderfully presented.
I’m indigenous not of America but Irish. Indigenous people revere the MotherEarth,. Respect nature and most importantly: know who they are ,! The strength they born with!
Black people are indigenous to the whole world.
This is my new favorite documentary. American history isn't something I know very little about so I want to thank this channel and all the people in this documentary for telling me an amazing and important part of American history that until now I knew nothing about, God bless you all, and thank you for sharing this story.
My grandmother had a Mammy. her name was Aunt Rose. She was enslaved by my great great grandparents in Valdosta, Ga.
After the Civil War Aunt Rose and her family were given homes and land on my grandparents land. My family loved Aunt Rose and her family and they, them. Aunt Rose died in 1953. She was 114 years old. She raised my moms brothers. I would give anything to find her family. Her given name was after my family. Her name was Rose Brantley . If anyone can help me that would make my life ❤️ I just want to put my arms around her family and tell them how much they mean to me.
I hope you are searching to pay reparations.
@@vivstone4596 re read enslaved by her own people ....who look too for that?
I just noticed your last name, there are some black Watsons that live in Holly Hill South Carolina. They probably recognize Mrs. Brantley people.. Search for the Watson in Holly Hill S.C.
I know some Watsons but I live in Florida, they don't live here..
What an awesome video!! I recently started my quest to learn all that I can about our culture and history because although some traditions were carried on my family didn't teach it. I am proud of my Gullah roots and I want to be able to share as much as I can with my children and grandchildren.
4 minutes in and I already recognize many similarities with my Senegalese culture from cloth to basket making
All of the Timeline videos are good but, this one is FABULOUS!
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My people all my language my home my hymns my songs
Wow I thought I could watch all this video from beginning to end but right now my heart is heavy and I can't stop crying because I have been telling anyone that would listen to me that I'll ancestors need us to return to Africa so that the ancestors that died here in America can have their DNA in US return to the motherland so they can rest in peace. I can't wait for my financial pocket to get to the point to make my exit. Right now covid is wreaking havoc on a lot of businesses and hours of being cut more and more. Thank you for making this video if you only know how fulfilled and proud to see how our people were before they were brought to America. May the gods of our ancestors bless you and give you abundant prosperity so you can continue to help blacks in America that they are Africans too
Your goal should be getting to heaven because your ancestors are dead and know nothing until Jesus resurrects them.
Hope you made it to the motherland. If you haven't yet,don't go alone
You better stay where you are or you might become an ancestor. No one without a good pension or regular income stream should go over there to burden the system.
Anita you are such a great person...thank you for your videos.
The reason the Gullah culture is equated with African Americans in general, is explained in the documentary. Over 70% of African Americans' ancestors came through the port cities of South Carolina. Thus, fresh new arrivals, still holding to their native cultures of West Africa, continued to flow into the region. This is why the Gullah culture is the American culture that most closely resembles West African ethnic groups, such as the Yoruba, Mande, and Senegamian peoples.
Exactly!!!
Not true !70% of the melaninated ppl did not come here on boats...we were already here....thousands millions of years ago.....Pangea
@@brooklynworld3105 You're speculating. There is no archeological evidence of that left from that era. Stop this foolishness.
The actual chosen people of the Most High. Gullah means redemption.
Africans did not sell Africans to the colonizers but sold the Hebrews…the Israelites.
Thank You for posting this!! I love AA history. Learned so much watching this.
Gullah culture fascinates me. The intelligence and tenacity of the people is so uplifting. The performers had magnificent voices! CA
Nt wait to visit and learn more. Thank you for sharing this wonderful story ❤
One of the best documentary I have seen in a long while. I love the use of drama and song to tell a story. It is such a powerful method
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Honoring His message of Hope and salvation through Faith in God YHVH Yeshua
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I remember watching “Gullah Gullah island” on Nickelodeon in the mid 90s lol
This was brilliant and beautiful.
I live in NC my ancestors and family on my moms side mostly reside in Wison County. NC and SC Black culture are basically the same. But Gullah Geecee is different. I was so happy she said all African Americans are gullah but I won't call myself Gullah, I don't know the creole language nor lived in Charleston. But thank you queen for thinking of me.
I thoroughly enjoyed this, I felt excitement flowing through my veins with every second of this video. Thank you for your work.
Grew up watching Gullah Gullah island. Has to be some connection
Yep same place, it’s called St Helena island. I’m from here. Mr Ron was actually a high school teacher and my mom did their kids hair
@@Growinggracefully843 whoa
Thank you so much for sharing this with us! Brilliant!!!
Wow, I am awed! This is where I looked first when I started wondering about us as originally Africans? Wow! Y’all gone make me cry! Ahhh!
I hope I'm Gullah. I learned about the Gullah culture due to the program called Gullah Gullah Island. That was many years ago. I was just talking to a co-worker last week about Gullah culture and how I need to know more!
where are your parents and grand parents from?
@@blkindians7974: My father's Dad was born in Alabama and my father's mother was born in Indiana. My father's parents met in Indiana. Both of my mother's parents were born in Alabama. My dad was born in Indiana and my mom was born in Alabama.
Currently trying to learn about my culture. Recently did a dna test to see where I should start but learning about the different Afro religions and spiritual practices has been a wonderful learning experience. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to place my hands and feet on the soil of my ancestors.
Nigerian
49.0%
• West African
16.8%
• North African
3.9%
• Central African
3.5%
EUROPE
• Scandinavian
12.5%
• Finnish
1.3%
South Asian
5.7%
West Asian
2.7%
AMERICA
• Mesoamerican and Andean
4.6%
How does a blood test tell you or anyone where a person ancestors is from? Records don't lie but PEOPLE DO...🤷🏾 physically History tell a person
@@aahmonddelite690where can I find records?
The best documentary I found so far 🙌 this culture is so similar to Bahamian culture ❤
It’s all African
@@stormship1647it's not African. African culture is African. It's a new culture created by our African ancestors in America and the Caribbean.
I’ve been touring around SC and checked out a few things in Charleston. Found out about the Gullah culture at the Boone Hall Plantation and found it very interesting. It saddens me that the culture has been lost or forgotten in too many places in the USA. Fantastic documentary!!
Don’t be sadden they liars and manipulators we aren’t from Africa we from the southeastern coast of America show me the artifacts that’s we came here on boats otherwise we won’t our land back
Wow powerful and heartbreaking documentary.Thankx and thete will indeed be no more tears again....its over...Amen.
This is everything; thank you 🙏🏽
Absolutely incredible documentary. The music is fantastic as well.
Saint Helena Island native checking in! #GeecheeGal❤ love my heritage. Some of my family members were apart of the crew for this documentary 💙💙
Love the narrator's voice and more film has to be made....accurate history.
Too much in the way of american flags, patriotism, & christianity. What happened to the Gullah we were hearing about at first? A brief mention of the Indigenous influence on Gullah culture-but never mentioned again. Would like to see more about the meshing of African & Native cultures....
Funga Alafia is a Yoruba song from Nigeria.
www.abibitumi.com/community/spirituality/alaafia-is-not-an-afrikan-word-nor-does-it-mean-peace/
7:09 Props to the reenactment
I'm from south Carolina and my family in my mother's side are Gullah folks .
IAM IN SO MUCH PAIN. I CAN NOT REST. I FEEL HELPLESS.RACISTS WHITE PEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE.
Best documentary
You here too. 😁😁
@@wammskaranja4218 kabisaaà 🤣🤣
So happy I am across this excellent documentary. My first trip to Charleston will hit me different .
Thank you so much for sharing your culture
Had no idea about Moses and her role in this area! Makes my heart smile!
Thank you for this national treasure!
Thankyou for shareing .
Literally the lady with the last name singleton is my cousin. She HAS TO BE. I am from the Smalls family (singleton, hayward, brown, etc) and my grandfather side is smith-glover. My grandmother is of the smalls and she is gullah/geechee and seminole❤️❤️ seems like we are related but I’m not sure.
My grandfather is from Coosaw Island and my Grandmother is from Indian Hill Plantation on St. Helena island and Lady’s Island (:
I'm a Philly Campbell & my father's side are Charleston, James Island S.C. & our family reunion shirts always said Campbell, Small & Whites ...I love My Gullah Geechie Family History ❤️
Me too I said the same thing hey cousin lol
Me too! I am from the Smalls Family... I just got the chills. With tears in my eyes...hey cousin! ❤
Dear Gullah, SC, and the Devout people of God! Out of the Seven Spirits of The earth, our tribes of Africa houses The Spirit of Truth, and God himself affords us Wisdom! I speak from our origin our roots not our connection to the world! Praise God, and Peace to our earth! The Spirit of Truth Gullah, thank you! Liberty, liberty, liberty! Power!
So beautiful! Thanks for the education and the effort put in to make this wonderful documentary. God bless you all!!
bless everyone who helped put this together !!!
Bahamian gullah here much love
Eyyyyy! Our dialect sounds the closest to the Bahamian dialect.
I was born in Charleston and grew up on James and Johns Island. This was a very informative and engaging film. Thank you
I noticed the absence of Nigeria in the countries you listed as the origin of the Gullah in West Africa but the words of the song "...alafia" and the response "Ase" at the beginning of the video is Yoruba. The Yorubas are mainly from Western Nigeria with a significant number in Benin/Togo and Sierra Leone. A large portion of the Yorubas were taken to Salvador/Bahia in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico and a few other places where the culture still persist in terms of spirituality and food.
IT HURTS MY HEART TO WATCH THIS. THIS IS IS ALWAYS ON. MY MIND. THIS TYPE OF THREATMENT OF MY PEOPLE MAKES MY. HEART ♥ BLEED EVERY DAY FROM MY CHILD HOOD DAYS I NEW WHITE PEOPLE WHERE. 😈 WHAT BURDEN FOR ANY CHILD OF COLOR TO LIVE THROU. IAM NOT A DOG.TALK TO GOD WHITE PEOPLE ABOUT WHERE BLACK PEOPLE COME FROM.IAM SORRY SO SORRY SOME PEOPLE OF COLOR HELP YOU.I THINK I KNOW THEY DONT WANT TO BE HANGED.
Ese gan.... exactomundo on all points.... o'dabo
The most Africans outside of Africa are in South America. There was no Nigeria at that time. Negro Land was carved up into all these different countries around 1914, in the 1800s King Leopold the 2nd of Belgium took over the Congo killing millions in the process! colonizers took over because they had the weapons to do it. they invaded Africa took their land naming it whatever they wanted, putting borders where they're never been borders before. Sugarcane & rice was what the colonizer wanted so they kidnapped their labor force who were experts at growing it. Then they needed more slaves for
King Cotton, You have to know this where did you think Europe is getting all their wealth from? There are countries in Africa today that are still paying European nations or the World Bank hundreds of millions of dollars every year with interest. Just about every African president that tried to feed his people & modernize their country have been assassinated. it's funny how people have selective memory. Peace
@@anthonymcmullen7510 peeps, even though your history lesson is on point on several levels, perhaps the comment was simply voicing a personal observation, not selective amnesia... I felt the exact same way after the first 15 mins of the video therefore I liked her comment.....
I'm willing to bet that we are singing in the same choir in terms of our level of pride in our african ancestry, even though our knowledge of african history are pages and pages apart..... alaffia
I watched a documentary of culture of Youruba descendants still practice and speak the language there. And have kept the traditions alive down through the generations.
My family is from Florence County, SC and surrounding areas. They made fun "a dem Geechie" although our culture was the same. Our language was the same, but our accent was different. All the old folks are dead. So, no one speaks the language anymore. I spoke it when I was little as that's how Mother spoke. I didnt know where those funny words came ftom until i was grown and learned that they were African words. We ate jollof rice regularly. We were Gullah people who did everything we could to forget our ancestors were African.
amazing
The music. The singing. Moves every cell in my body. My ancestors sounded like this??? No way 😢😢