Tales From the Land of Gullah
11:30 AM
to 5:30 PM
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
1501 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth
Age Limit
All ages
Free - $8
Start date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Event is ongoing: Until Monday, September 7, 2009
Gullah is a West African culture that survived the hardships of slavery and has remained almost unscathed since the 1600s. During the 1600s to the 1800s, millions of West Africans were enslaved throughout the Western Hemisphere. Of those taken to the United States, most were stripped of their culture, language and customs and as a result, lost their homeland traditions.
Africans living on the Sea Islands, along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, remained relatively isolated from mainland America. Thus, they were able to form and preserve a unique way of life that blended their West African heritage with European-American and slave traditions. This became known as the Gullah culture.
