Wow! Didn't know SC and Barbados had a connection

@islandgyal5269

6 жыл бұрын

Sherri Solomon same here! And all of my ancestors on my dad side are from South Carolina!

@Amanda-kb8ok

6 жыл бұрын

My great grandfather is from Marion SC. And the gullah geechee language is still spoken in my family. This is so neat. The more you learn.

@sherrisolomon8673

5 жыл бұрын

@@islandgyal5269 I new that Charleston and the West Indies had a connection I just didn't realize it was Barbados.

@islandgyal5269

5 жыл бұрын

@@sherrisolomon8673 I didn't know S.C had a connection with the west Indies at all!!

@sherrisolomon8673

5 жыл бұрын

@@islandgyal5269 Love Turquoise their accent gives them away! lol! I think it's the same with the Black folks in New Orleans.

From my research the Gallah was In America before so called African slave trade and Gallah people is an indigenous people to America from my research I’m actually reading a book now that confirm that if anyone’s interested I will put title on here

@JNewlyNatural

4 жыл бұрын

Deon Smith interested in that book plz!

@truthoverfictionii5760

3 жыл бұрын

Also there were more exporting then importing going on in Charleston.

@demetriussmith7241

3 жыл бұрын

@@JNewlyNatural Indians of the South Carolina low country, 1562-1751 By Gene Waddell sorry for late response just seen your msg but you can buy book or go read it at a library I don’t think it’s a loaner book

@mlungisiwright912

3 жыл бұрын

Here is the confusion the Spanish write /w/ words as gu so war is guera or "little war or squirmish is guerilla. So the Spanish met a people called *wahali and vocalized it as Guale. Then you had many Africans brought over from the kingdoms of Kongo,Tyo,Loango,and Ndongo, which at one time the king of Kongo claimed lordship over. The kingdom of Ndongo's ruler had the title of Ngola. The Portuguese who converted the BaKongo (people of Kongo)to Christianity and also got them involved with human trafficking aka the transAtlantics slave trade established the colony of Luanda which became the capital of Angola. So some think Gullah is just from Ngola or Angola but the first syllable was dropped. Lastly Gullah are noted for rice. The staple of what is now Liberia and Sierra Leone was or is rice. There is a tribe in Liberia called Gola. There is also one called Kissi. In America back in the 1700s Kissi was written as "Kishee". But then you have a Native American word Ogeechee as in the Ogeechee river

@kiaramorgan4120

Жыл бұрын

No they arent

Queen Charlotte in King George the third move their slaves to North Carolina and that's why it's called Charlotte NC💯

They also were the best metal workers as well as in the case of the Ashanti.

Lots of people from Barbados went to Grenada as well after slavery ,although Grenada was use as a transhipment form Africa to other places The Gullah people was brought from Sierra Leone to the Americas

I had headphones in 3:42 that scared me 😭😭

I am from Barbados and hear a real similarity to Gullah speak .

Yes there was about 30,000 irsh Scottish slaves tooken to Barbados.they grew sugar cane. They produced rum to take to South carolina.you need to study more.

I’m Gullah Geechee and the information you are relaying from that particular text book is inaccurate. Several things that were stated were factually incorrect. Other comments were VERY generalized ... so much so that it doesn’t distinguish what makes our culture different than others. Please understand, I’m not commenting to criticize you. I’m commenting with hopes that you’ll be able to enrich this lesson, to compensate where the textbook is failing, for future lessons. I encourage you to read the following information as a starting point: (1)We were on rice plantations..... which they populated with Africans Sierra Leone b/c the climate was the same. Just because some slaves came through the sea Islands... doesn't mean they stayed there. If they didn't come from the proper region where they could cultivate rice (and learn other crops in addition like corn).... then they moved on once they were sold at the slave market (for example... to Alabama). Our language shares the likeness to that of Sierra Leone Krio. We have our own New Testament written in Gullah. (I bought mine from Amazon), a published dictionary, a nation flag, a nation constitution (Just like native Americans have their tribal regulations/ordinances), and we are recognized by Congress. (2)Us Gullah's kept the native vocabulary (as much as possible from Sierra Leone). Watch this video..... the several Gullah Geechee's went on a homecoming journey to Sierra Leone... and like no time ever passed, they fell right in.... language and all. Check out this video on KZread: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pHeGk9SmnZm-ldo.html (3) if you Google the "Gullah Geechee Sierra Leone Connection"... you can find tons of stuff. Although Joseph A. Opala, wrote about this MANY years ago, Yale University and the Gilder Lehman Center just recently covered this SAME topic. (4) In 1996 the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition was founded by Marquetta L. Goodwine who has since been enstooled as Queen Quet, Chieftess and Head-of-State for the Gullah/Geechee Nation. (5) the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor .... Marquetta Goodwine was the person who fought to get this pushed through various government entities to protect the sea island along several states. However, u have to research to learn that....it doesn't "clearly" state that on the official government website. (All though she did get a commissioner seat out of it). This link discusses her back ground AND how she represents us at the United Nations :-) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquetta_Goodwine (6) The Sea Islands and the Lowcountry occupying thirty-five miles inland from Jacksonville, North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida is now the Gullah/Geechee Nation. Through this region runs the United StatesGullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor that was founded through an act of the United States Congress. The Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition was the leading organization in the effort to have this national designation done. The organization continues to work with the citizens of the Gullah/Geechee Nation to insure that their human rights are protected and that the culture continues for the generations to come. Sorry my comment was so long. Guess you can tell I'm proud to be Gullah Geechee ;-)

@Da_Black_Man

5 жыл бұрын

I agree wut dus our grannies tell the same story with VERY similar information in this comment. Thanks for clearing this up I was gettin a little aggravated by the info in this lesson.....

@tRIXIIE1

5 жыл бұрын

I be wanting to tell ppl alla Dey information too choppy and not fix up right. Thanks for the explanation.

@BiancaWoodard

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I will correct it. I apologize for the confusion.

@BiancaWoodard

4 жыл бұрын

janaelg thank you sooooo very much. I will do exactly what you said and if possible, please send me a message. I’d love to meet with you if possible. I so want to get it right.

@radiant2052

9 ай бұрын

This is true. My family is from the Gullah Geechee community on Johns Island. I took a 23and me test, and Sierra Leone is one of my top country matches, as well as the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

No disrespect but your info is inaccurate

@aceheru7855

4 жыл бұрын

You got to correct her if she's wrong

BTW ..it's not Barbadian. It's Bajan

@am24526

2 ай бұрын

Both are correct. Barbadian is formal and Bajan is informal.

@danewoods7880

Ай бұрын

Both are correct and are derived from what I like to call human-lazy-tongue syndrome. Here are examples: Indians are referred to as Injuns. Arcadians are called Cajuns Barbadians are called Bajans. I believe in some cases where "dian" exists at the end of a word, human-lazy-tongue application results in the "di" being reduced to letterJ pronunciation