African Connections
Gullah Culture
Preserving the Culture
Portfolio Assignments

 

Gullah Resident
Gullah Culture



Courtesy of Rhett Thurman

Use the template Summarizing Internet Resources when visiting links. Print it and make copies as needed. Visit as many links as you can in the time you are given or as your teacher directs. There are 27 links to review for this role.

Explore Gullah culture at these 13 links. There are a lot of links, but most are short. Several have audio segments to listen to.

QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT WHILE REVIEWING THESE LINKS

  1. How and why did Gullah culture develop over the last 300 years?
  2. How is Gullah culture connected to slavery?
  3. How is Gullah culture expressed?
  4. What is unique about this culture and why should it be preserved?
  5. What is its importance to the larger African American community in the United States?

Research Links

These links will open in a new browser window. When you are finished researching a particular link, simply close the browser window that opened to return to this webpage.