Kum ba yah • (koom-ba-ya) • phrase Definition: “Come by here” Origin: Gullah (Sea Island Creole English, Gullah English) Many people don’t know this about me, but my mother’s side of the family has lived in Charleston, South Carolina as free persons of color (FPC) since the beginning of the 1800s. These people, my mother's side of the family, are known as Gullah Geechee people, and Charleston has a Black history that is distinct from much of the South. Not only has Charleston had a vibrant FPC community since the founding of the United States, but it also has a series of islands off the coast that FPCs and enslaved Blacks escaped to in the hopes of liberating themselves from
A Word for Asking for Divine Intervention
A Word for Asking for Divine Intervention
A Word for Asking for Divine Intervention
Kum ba yah • (koom-ba-ya) • phrase Definition: “Come by here” Origin: Gullah (Sea Island Creole English, Gullah English) Many people don’t know this about me, but my mother’s side of the family has lived in Charleston, South Carolina as free persons of color (FPC) since the beginning of the 1800s. These people, my mother's side of the family, are known as Gullah Geechee people, and Charleston has a Black history that is distinct from much of the South. Not only has Charleston had a vibrant FPC community since the founding of the United States, but it also has a series of islands off the coast that FPCs and enslaved Blacks escaped to in the hopes of liberating themselves from