Geechee and Gullah Culture

Gullah has come to be an accepted name of the islanders from .....?

• New York

• South Carolina

• Georgia

• Puerto Rico

The Gullah Coast stretches from_____ to ______?

• Sandy Island SC, to Amelia Island Florida.

• Columbia to Argentina.

• Long Island, NY, to HHI, SC.

• Jacksonville, Fl, to Orlando, Fl.

How were some traditions that were passed down in the Gullah/Geechee culture?

• Via language, Irish dancing, and singing.

• language, agriculture, and spirituality.

• language, gauchos, and drinking tea.

• language, salsa dancing, and folktales.

Why did Georgia lift the anti-slavery law in 1750?

• They wanted to lose money.

• They wanted to help West-African people by making them work on the plantations for free.

• West Africans, the argument went, were better able to cope with the climate; and slaves were more profitable.

• They copied what was happening in France at the time.

Rice plantations helped Georgia become very successful.

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

Some anthropologists think that Gullah comes from....

• Northern Africa

• Angola on the windward coast

• South Africa

• East Africa

Some researchers think that the term Geechee comes from..

• borrowed words from Haiti.

• borrowed words from the Cherokees

• borrowed words from Gola, Kissi Mende, Twi and Vai.

• borrowed words from the Spanish.

Linguist Lorenzo Turner researched and documented spoken words and....

• traced similarities to Caucasian groups..

• traced similarities to Native American groups.

• traced similarities to ethnic groups in China.

• traced similarities to ethnic groups in West Africa.

The enslaved Africans brought with them knowledge of...

• how to make tools needed for rice harvesting including fanner baskets for winnowing rice.

• How to make tools to make a vineyard.

• How to play Minecraft.

Lorenzo Turner had recorded a song that islander Amelia Dawley had been taught by her mother Octavia "Tawba" Shaw which was traced to...

• Sierra Leone and was a Mende funeral song

• Santa Barbara and was a country song.

• South Carolina and was a Gullah rap.

• South Dakota and was a line dance.