Geechee
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As he puts it, “There are recipes that come home to me because of my own Gullah Geechee experience”—specifically chicken pilau, chicken perloo and jambalaya.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2025
Small communities descended from enslaved island populations in the South, known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia, are scattered along the coast from North Carolina to Florida.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2024
The writer traveled to seven praise houses in South Carolina and Georgia, along the Gullah Geechee Corridor.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2023
Nearby, an elderly member of South Carolina’s Gullah Geechee people — descendants of Africans who were forced to labor on plantations along the Atlantic Coast — was busy weaving a traditional hat out of sweetgrass.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023
It’s one of just a few surviving communities in the South of people known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia, whose ancestors worked island slave plantations.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2023
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