Gullah Geechee Storyteller Preserves a Painful Past

The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of West African slaves brought to the coasts of the Carolinas, Georgia, and northern Florida, whose geographic isolation helped them retain a distinct culture and language. In chronicling the injustice her ancestors faced, South Carolina Gullah storyteller Theresa Jenkins Hilliard seeks to make their struggle real and relevant to younger generations. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe

Read more about Gullah Geechee heritage: http://goo.gl/BoH4cT

Read about South Carolina’s ACE Basin online in National Geographic magazine: http://goo.gl/Dl3PzB

PRODUCER: Kathryn Carlson ARCHIVAL IMAGES: Library of Congress; National Geographic Creative; Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Lois Turner Williams ADDITIONAL SOUND: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress