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• Surf through your links to look for chat, bulletin board, discussion group, or e-mail links. As your school policies permit, write the contacts to ask questions or share your reactions to their web site information.


• Write to someone you encountered during your research. Two possibilities are historian Charles Joyner at Coastal Carolina University and Gullah leader Marquetta Goodwine at the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition.


• If you are sympathetic to the Gullah cause, you may want to sign a petition to save a Gullah Sea Island. (http://members.aol.com/queenmut/petition.html)


• More Gullah causes and actions you can take to help are described at www.coax.net/people/lwf/gg_gp.htm


• Try Gullah food! Gullah food items are for sale at www.gullahgourmet.com/product_catalog.htm


• Order free South Carolina heritage tour brochures at www.sc-heritagecorridor.org/html/brochure_rack.html


• Try Carolina Gold rice. Order rice from the only Carolina colonial plantation still growing rice commercially. Go to www.carolinaplantationrice.com


• Go back through your links and enjoy any virtual tours offered.


• Review the guidelines for the South Carolina Historical Marker Program at www.state.sc.us/scdah/historic.htm. If you have a suggestion for a marker to honor a person, place, or event related to slavery, the Gullah, or rice plantations, e-mail the contact listed with your idea.


• Survey historical markers in your own community. How many reflect the local African American past?


• Rent the video of the film Daughters of the Dust. It chronicles the last days of a Gullah family on the verge of migrating to the North. Discuss it with family, friends, or classmates.

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