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Her first major credential as a culinary anthropologist was her book “Vibration Cooking or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl.” Published in 1970, it effected the evolution of modern-day American food writing and continues to shape the genre today. https://t.co/yuQBmmlQ8h

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@raread @jefyuaz @NCWineWoman1 Is the book you’re thinking about “Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas” by Dr. Sylviane A. Diouf?

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But Br’er Rabbit and company became household names after white American journalist Joel Chandler Harris wrote several collections of ‘Uncle Remus’ Brer Rabbit stories between 1870 and 1906. (Yes, that’s were Disney’s now banned animated classic “Song of the South” comes from.)

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The ambassador introduced Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King to the Penn Center on St. Helena Island, S.C. The @NationalSCLC often held retreats there. That’s where MLK put the finishing touches on his “I Have A Dream” speech before the March on Washington. https://t.co/7BtEY68EV3

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The stolen labor of the ancestors of the Gullah Geechee made rice plantation owners millionaires, says @KosherSoul Michael Twitty in @mofad’s “Growing Rice: A Migration Story from Seed to Plate” with him, chef/author @ChefJJ, and farmer Nfamara Badjie. https://t.co/AD38TJCVWA https://t.co/aBEJOM9tK2

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@SuperDarian @Black_Action Daughters of the Dust by iconic filmmaker, producer, writer and Julie Dash, who is a proud Gullah Geechee. This film broke all kinds or ground when it came out in 1991. It continues to influence the work of artists like Beyoncé today. https://t.co/SrjLOo9tcg

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While indigo dye traces its roots to India, the transatlantic African slave trade made it exceedingly valuable on that continent and the New World, according to Catherine E. McKinley, author of “Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World.”

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In the book “Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom & Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands,”musicologist Eric Sean Crawford, PhD, traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change in the 20th century American South. https://t.co/6Hhsk7h0X4

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Sources: : “Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail” by W. Jeffrey Bolster, “The South Carolina Negro in the American Revolution, 1775-1783” by M. Foster Farley.

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In his groundbreaking book "Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect" Lorenzo Dow Turner, PhD, the "father of Gullah Studies," identified more than 4,000 African words and names in the Gullah language, including African words with Arabic origins.