I was born and raised in Southport I’m white but love this culture and it heavily influences my cooking cause I was raised on it still, there’s a lot in this video I didn’t know! I think it’s very important that the culture of African Americans is preserved and taught thanks so much for this video!
Tbf our ancestors created our own unique and distinct culture in America and I’m very proud and connected to that but have no problem in having event’s and ceremonies appreciating Geechee culture from time to time as well..
The 2022 NC Rice Festival is on! The Gullah Geechee Heritage Dinner Gala will take place Friday night, March 4, followed by the Festival event all day on Sat., March 5. Get info and dinner tickets on our website (www.northcarolinaricefestival.org)
Fun fact: Carolina Gold rice belongs to the rice species oryza glabirrema which is indigenous to Africa and was domesticated by Africans thousands of years ago independently from the domestication of Asian rice oryza sativa in Asia. Europeans found large areas of cultivated rice in West Africa and carried rice and experienced planters to the Americas during the Slave Trade. Carolina Gold rice became a major food staple crop and the majority rice grown in the US until the Civil War era. Another African rice strain was Red Bearded Upland rice which was grown on dry land and hillsides. Thomas Jefferson imported a large cask of it and distributed it to different parts of the South hoping that it could replace wetland rice in mosquito and malaria prone areas, but as it required much more labour to plant, maintain and process it never caught on as a large scale commercial crop, but was grown by slaves and free blacks as a subsistence crop in some areas, until it too was phased out during the Civil War. Runaway slaves who joined the British army during the War of 1812 and who were later resettled in the British Caribbean colony of Trinidad took Red Bearded Upland rice cultivation to the island, where it is still grown as a heritage and minor commercial crop under the name Moruga Hill Rice
The 2022 NC Rice Festival is on! The Gullah Geechee Heritage Dinner Gala will take place Friday night, March 4, followed by the Festival event all day on Sat., March 5. Get info and dinner tickets on our website (www.northcarolinaricefestival.org)
A other thing people forget is yes gullah geeche people have ties whit serria leon but the gullah came from the word Ngola 🇦🇴 the first slave american where Angolan bakongo and mbundu so angola play a big role whit your ancestry
Yes Angola but there is also a tribe in Sierra Leone called the Gola tribe and one called the Kissi tribe but I believe the pronunciation is similar to the way we say Geechee. I believe multiple stories of how we received our name can be true.
Thank you for a new history of North Carolina. Brunswick was indeed very important for the economy. I did not about the slaves bringing their skills in growing rice.
The 2022 NC Rice Festival is on! The Gullah Geechee Heritage Dinner Gala will take place Friday night, March 4, followed by the Festival event all day on Sat., March 5. Get info and dinner tickets on our website (www.northcarolinaricefestival.org)
My family is geechee from my grandpa line and an old preacher in Enfield NC named reverend Moore told us his grandpa was a geechee slave who got bought from in SC and brought to the area.
Fun fact: Carolina Gold rice belongs to the rice species oryza glabirrema which is indigenous to Africa and was domesticated by Africans thousands of years ago independently from the domestication of Asian rice oryza sativa in Asia. Europeans found large areas of cultivated rice in West Africa and carried rice and experienced planters to the Americas during the Slave Trade. Carolina Gold rice became a major food staple crop and the majority rice grown in the US until the Civil War era. Another African rice strain was Red Bearded Upland rice which was grown on dry land and hillsides. Thomas Jefferson imported a large cask of it and distributed it to different parts of the South hoping that it could replace wetland rice in mosquito and malaria prone areas, but as it required much more labour to plant, maintain and process it never caught on as a large scale commercial crop, but was grown by slaves and free blacks as a subsistence crop in some areas, until it too was phased out during the Civil War. Runaway slaves who joined the British army during the War of 1812 and who were later resettled in the British Caribbean colony of Trinidad took Red Bearded Upland rice cultivation to the island, where it is still grown as a heritage and minor commercial crop under the name Moruga Hill Rice
I was born and raised in Southport I’m white but love this culture and it heavily influences my cooking cause I was raised on it still, there’s a lot in this video I didn’t know! I think it’s very important that the culture of African Americans is preserved and taught thanks so much for this video!
Our people need this 💯 It's time to get back to our roots that was stripped from us (African Americans)🎯
We are attempting to make that connection.
@@northcarolinaricefestival848Now that's what's up 💯 Each one teach one🎯
NO REPARATIONS NO VOTE..
Tbf our ancestors created our own unique and distinct culture in America and I’m very proud and connected to that but have no problem in having event’s and ceremonies appreciating Geechee culture from time to time as well..
@@Jedi_Black Geechee culture is American culture.😐
I am proud of my African ancestors
“Our history and our culture is American history and American culture.” Amen to that.
Solomon Reaves was my great grandfather.
The 2022 NC Rice Festival is on! The Gullah Geechee Heritage Dinner Gala will take place Friday night, March 4, followed by the Festival event all day on Sat., March 5. Get info and dinner tickets on our website (www.northcarolinaricefestival.org)
This was incredibly informative!
Thank you.
Fun fact: Carolina Gold rice belongs to the rice species oryza glabirrema which is indigenous to Africa and was domesticated by Africans thousands of years ago independently from the domestication of Asian rice oryza sativa in Asia.
Europeans found large areas of cultivated rice in West Africa and carried rice and experienced planters to the Americas during the Slave Trade.
Carolina Gold rice became a major food staple crop and the majority rice grown in the US until the Civil War era.
Another African rice strain was Red Bearded Upland rice which was grown on dry land and hillsides. Thomas Jefferson imported a large cask of it and distributed it to different parts of the South hoping that it could replace wetland rice in mosquito and malaria prone areas, but as it required much more labour to plant, maintain and process it never caught on as a large scale commercial crop, but was grown by slaves and free blacks as a subsistence crop in some areas, until it too was phased out during the Civil War.
Runaway slaves who joined the British army during the War of 1812 and who were later resettled in the British Caribbean colony of Trinidad took Red Bearded Upland rice cultivation to the island, where it is still grown as a heritage and minor commercial crop under the name Moruga Hill Rice
Upland rice is a variety of rice grown on dry land hillsides
CORRECTION: great, great grandfather
Lucy Reaves was my great grandmother.
Hello! Then we are related!
The 2022 NC Rice Festival is on! The Gullah Geechee Heritage Dinner Gala will take place Friday night, March 4, followed by the Festival event all day on Sat., March 5. Get info and dinner tickets on our website (www.northcarolinaricefestival.org)
@@northcarolinaricefestival848 I missed it. If you all do another one I am flying back to Wilmington to be there
My greatgrandmother’s name was Eva Brown. Her maiden name is Sumpter. I’m trying to find my family. My mom told me that our people are Gullah Geechee
Thank you. We are developing a genealogy project in order to see if we can connect people from around here with their roots in Wet Africa.
There are a lot of Sumpters in Sumpter, SC.
Sumpter sounds like the slave owners name who Sumpter is probably named for
@@tyannaalisawest3596 Thanks for sharing this. I’ll look further.
@@ckd0680 Yeah. I know. Hurts
A other thing people forget is yes gullah geeche people have ties whit serria leon but the gullah came from the word Ngola 🇦🇴 the first slave american where Angolan bakongo and mbundu so angola play a big role whit your ancestry
Don't forget there's a village in Sierra Leone where they found a song that some Gullahs still sung, that village is called Senehun NGOLA
Yes Angola but there is also a tribe in Sierra Leone called the Gola tribe and one called the Kissi tribe but I believe the pronunciation is similar to the way we say Geechee. I believe multiple stories of how we received our name can be true.
Thank you for a new history of North Carolina. Brunswick was indeed very important for the economy. I did not about the slaves bringing their skills in growing rice.
The Enslaved Peoples came with their expertise in growing rice. Slavers then deliberately went to seek out the people with those skills.
I love North Carolinians and our culture. 🖤🖤
So interesting
I had no idea. I only thought they were in CHARLESTON.
Were any Gullah Geechee people in Halifax county North Carolina? Good video
Yes they was
The 2022 NC Rice Festival is on! The Gullah Geechee Heritage Dinner Gala will take place Friday night, March 4, followed by the Festival event all day on Sat., March 5. Get info and dinner tickets on our website (www.northcarolinaricefestival.org)
@@RA1N1TO ok, cool. I wasn't sure if they were in that area or not.
My family is geechee from my grandpa line and an old preacher in Enfield NC named reverend Moore told us his grandpa was a geechee slave who got bought from in SC and brought to the area.
@@sorongana5346 same as mine! My dad's side of the family are from Enfield, North Carolina! I'm trying to find where they came from
NO REPARATIONS NO VOTE..
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Keep talking about our history
I dont knoe why they keep forgeting the bahamas ?
Yes. That was a transshipment point.
You ain't lie they keep forgetting Bahamas
Where's all these slave vessels?!🤣
We got Dinosaurs fossil, Meteors, and Not one
slave ship! oh my!
disassembled and used for resources.
@@anidnmeno😂😂
Conspiracy theory bs
An other Americans land
Y’all were slaves?
Yes we were enslaved.
Stop the lye. Those ship were only coming from west indies. No africa
Post your source(s)?
Poorly educated
I am not Gullah Geechee
Ok
Fun fact: Carolina Gold rice belongs to the rice species oryza glabirrema which is indigenous to Africa and was domesticated by Africans thousands of years ago independently from the domestication of Asian rice oryza sativa in Asia.
Europeans found large areas of cultivated rice in West Africa and carried rice and experienced planters to the Americas during the Slave Trade.
Carolina Gold rice became a major food staple crop and the majority rice grown in the US until the Civil War era.
Another African rice strain was Red Bearded Upland rice which was grown on dry land and hillsides. Thomas Jefferson imported a large cask of it and distributed it to different parts of the South hoping that it could replace wetland rice in mosquito and malaria prone areas, but as it required much more labour to plant, maintain and process it never caught on as a large scale commercial crop, but was grown by slaves and free blacks as a subsistence crop in some areas, until it too was phased out during the Civil War.
Runaway slaves who joined the British army during the War of 1812 and who were later resettled in the British Caribbean colony of Trinidad took Red Bearded Upland rice cultivation to the island, where it is still grown as a heritage and minor commercial crop under the name Moruga Hill Rice