5/15/13. As we made our way up the southeast coast, we visited a variety of sites that are part of the Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, including Castillo de San Marcos, Fort Caroline, Kingsley Plantation, Timucuan Preserve, and Liberty Square.
According to the National Park website, It is home to one of America's most unique cultures, a tradition first
shaped by captive Africans brought to the southern United States from
West Africa and continued in later generations by their descendents. The Gullah/Geechee people are descendents of enslaved Africans from
various ethnic groups of west and central Africa. Brought to the New
World and forced to work on the plantations of coastal South Car
olina,
Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, Gullah/Geechee people have retained
many aspects of their African heritage due to the geographic barriers
of the coastal landscape and the strong sense of place and family of
Gullah/Geechee community members.
According to the National Park website, It is home to one of America's most unique cultures, a tradition first
shaped by captive Africans brought to the southern United States from
West Africa and continued in later generations by their descendents. The Gullah/Geechee people are descendents of enslaved Africans from
various ethnic groups of west and central Africa. Brought to the New
World and forced to work on the plantations of coastal South Car
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