The Gullah: The History and Legacy of the African American Ethnic Group in the American Southeast

Charming drawls, bluegrass bops, NASCAR, mouthwatering barbecues, and the Great Smoky Mountains are all customs that make America’’s Deep South home to some of the most vibrant, powerfully evocative, and culturally rich subregions on the continent, tethered to a heritage that rose from the ashes of the Civil War.

There exists, however, a lesser-known, but equally indispensable subculture based within a 500- mile radius of the coastal South Atlantic states and Sea Islands.