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In Touch With the Gullah and Geechee Culture Identities: Part II

This article is a continuation of Part I of the history of West Africa and Central Africa—Gullah/Geechee ancestry. The previous article informed you about the distinct differences between the two groups of people from Africa but from different countries on that continent.

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In Touch With the Gullah and Geechee Culture Identities: Part II
Betty Miller Buttram

In Touch With the Gullah and Geechee Culture Identities: Part I

The rice growing region in West Africa got the attention of the Europeans who had plantations on the various Sea Islands off the coastal southeastern shores of South Carolina, Georgia, and northeastern Florida.

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In Touch With the Gullah and Geechee Culture Identities: Part I
Betty Miller Buttram

In Touch With A Six Triple Eight Veteran

A soldier was laid to rest on June 21, 2024. The soldier received the Congressional Gold Medal in the summer 2022 for service during World War II. The soldier lived to be 104 years old, and she was an African American woman who had served in a segregated U.S. Army not only divided by race, but also by sex.

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In Touch With A Six Triple Eight Veteran
Betty Miller Buttram

In Touch With Juneteenth and Our Ancestors

Juneteenth was once celebrated as “Jubilee Day.” It was in the spring of 1865 when Union Army General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced to all the residents that enslaved people living in the state of Texas and other Confederate states had been freed by an Executive…

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In Touch With Juneteenth and Our Ancestors
Betty Miller Buttram

In Touch With The Blevins Sisters

Psalm 92:1,4: It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands, I sing for joy.

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In Touch With The Blevins Sisters