"From Whence We Came" | Gullah Geechee Watch Night + Emancipation Celebration
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- This New Year’s Eve, the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission invites you to come together with members of Gullah Geechee communities in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida to participate in a celebration that is over 150 years old: the Watch Night service commemorating the date of January 1, 1863 when enslaved people in the Low Country, the Sea Islands and throughout the United States emerged from bondage as a result of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Though Watch Night has continued to be observed in one form or another in the Corridor, it would appear that its original tie to the Emancipation Proclamation has been largely lost.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN
These community events will take place Sunday, December 31, 2017 and/or Monday, January 1, 2018 at churches, community centers and sites such as old rice plantations. The Watch Night services will generally begin late in the evening on December 31, 2017. What you will experience in the hours leading up to midnight will vary based on custom and practice in each Gullah Geechee community but tradition holds that these services usually involve music, the traditional liturgy and contemplation of what has passed followed by reconciliation and resolutions for the coming year.
The Watchmen, elders in the community, will signal when midnight is near. At that time, the community will kneel in prayer to welcome the New Year - and collectively reflect on how on January 1, 1863 the New Year also meant a long-hoped for freedom for millions of African-Americans in the United States. Gullah Geechee people, who have been a part of or have long memories of these traditional celebrations within their communities over the years, will educate others about the traditions, history and significance of what occurred on these days.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
You can find a growing list of participating sites on our website. We ask that you be mindful that these are important community events that involve long-standing, sacred ceremonies. We ask that you respect the churches and our community partners by being mindful of local customs regarding attire and conduct.
You should also seek permission at least a week in advance from the site if you would like to photograph or videotape any part of these events.
QUESTIONS?
Contact the Commission at info@gullahgeecheecorridor.org or 843.818.4587.
THANKS
Development of this program was supported by a generous planning grant from South Carolina Humanities.
VERY proud of my Gullah/Geechee heritage.. Thank you Lord for saving my people & culture so that we can pass the memory down to the next generations.
My grandfather came from North Carolina back in the day. I believe he was of the Gullah/ Geechee heritage.
I grew up with Gullah childhood friends from South Carolina. They stood out in the neighborhood and we would talk about our African heritage. My people came from
Mali and Nigeria.
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Im so proud to be born and still live in lowcountry SC(jasper county) I will make my ancestors proud
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Love my people!❤
Love my ancestry!❤
Love my culture!❤
Love my Heritage!❤
Powerful
Proud Gullah Geechee!
Same huh naaa
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Never forget who you are. Never forget where you came from. Respect and admiration from a cubano born in the USA 🇨🇺🇺🇸
Diss yah ebbytin'! #selah
South Carolina Born. Know we are the ancient spiritualll ones.
Blessed to be gullah-geechee James Island South Carolina
Philadelphia, born in downtown Charleston (Back-da-Green).
That word "Geechee" wz created by Blacks who never heard the word (Cherokee). In describing a Geechee - they simply describe the features and attributes of dark-skinned Cherokee Indians. FACTS.
If every story can be written, I’ll buy everlasting one of them!......proudly!
Book: Aint you gotta right to the tree of life...your welcome
Id read everyone
I'm ONLY 3 minutes into this,and ALREADY I'm in tears-
Thank you for this video! I now live in Phoenix Arizona, but I grew up in Charleston, SC. I ended and began many a New Year on my knees, praying in our church during the night watchman service. Hearing them sing the night watchman song took me back home for a minute!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Me too. Philadelphia, born & raised (Back-da-Green) in Downtown Charleston.
Love&Prayers to my people! AMEN! Love from Canada 🇨🇦🙏🏽❤️🇨🇦
I want to go visit.. and bring my grands too... u can feel it through the video
Proud gullah!
Thank you for tellin' we story!
I'm from Mcclellanville SC, a small, rural fishing town in Charleston County.
When I was in the US Army, a white Colonel in 1985, at Fort Ord, Monterey CA. asked me where I was from. I told him that I was from Charleston, SC. He said something along the line of: "Don't you ever lose your accent or forget where you came from" in a stern tone of voice. As a nineteen year-old, I truly didn't get why he said that. Besides, I was ashamed of the manner in which I spoke. I thought I sounded ignorant and was trying to run away from my culture.
But now, here I am approximately 30 years later and I'm finding out more and more almost every day why that Colonel said what he said.
According to my research this far, we are the Aboriginals or Indigenous/Indian people of the Low Country area. We are not all from Africa.
Yes indeed, I am a proud Gullah/Guale/Geechee member! ✌
You're wrong 👍
@@redboy09100 why is he wrong?
@@SAINTOFTHEMOSTHIGH because not only have I been there over and over and over again. The museum doesn't back his statements, the lady who keeps their traditions alive doesn't back his statements, but neither does the locals I've met down there.
@@redboy09100 he is a Gullah-Geechee and so an I. How are you whites and outsiders telling us who we are?
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Our church does Watch Man, every New Year's!!
This is the same exact culture to the people in Middle Caicos, Turks and Caicos islands. The way they talk esp and the Baskets look exactly the same.
My people. We are one😁😁😁😍
Awesome Vid!!! Love my People. AsE'.
Greetings, thank you for my Freedom , my food
New Orleans 3rd
Very inspiring to hear black people speak of thei own people's lives and not of what happened to them by white people. Makes me very thankful for a praying people!
Thank you for this
God Bless You All 🙏
My mother's family was from South Carolina. I remember a great aunt saying "we are Guchee". I really want to know about our heritage.
Th 6:55 at word "Geechee" wz created Blacks who never heard the word Cherokee. In describing a Geechee, they simply describe the features & attributes of dark-skinned Cherokee Indians.
Love our family
Amen amen amen 💯💙💙💙
Dis video is eb'ting. Proud ta be Geechee. SC here!
AWESOME BRO MUCH RESPECT FROM PHILLY!!!
Philadelphia/ born & raised downtown Charleston (Back-da-Green). The word "Geechee" wz created by Blacks who never heard the word Cherokee. When describing a (Geechee) - they'd describe features & attributes of dark-skinned Cherokee Indians. FACTS.
The first speaker look like my kinfolk 🖤
I'm a sixth generation geechee naaa even tho I'm in Texas
Mek me wan run to you, geechee people. I am from dat Massa-2 ships, state, and realize that, the belt , buckle and powderhorn, I gave to my nephew, was likely from that 54th brigade. Ok, no pride, attached. Yet and still, my ancestors, were some kinda players. And at least, it gives me another lead. Currently, my niece is a prof, in So.Carolina, so I’m goin’ in .. cover me lord.!🇲🇱
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Also my pops has turned me onto this AMAZING movie called “Conrack”. And every time he calls to tell me it’s on,it’s always toward the end,but from seeing a small part,I know it’s a great movie! And after watching this video I thought about that movie n perhaps the teacher man was teaching the Gullah youth. I googled it up MSU re it was talkin about ur ppl❤️
I will sea this movie from start to finish!
You can read the book. The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy
@@rebeccalyons1327 I heard that was grate! Ty I will
Love it 😍
Blessings !!!
Oh my. These people look like my people!! My papa.. my aunts... wow
Wow very interesting...Thanks for the video!
we love juneteenth its so over looked.
My little cousins use to speak in a weird way .. and say things like “ why you eating we food “ we use to laugh at them , entire time these kids was talking geechee .. we thought they were speaking bad English ..
Yes. This is why knowing our history is important. I learned a few years ago that the word "massa" is an African (Fulani ) word that means CAPTOR. Remember, enslaved people were prisoners of war. "Sirree" means evil, or one with evil intentions. So "yes sirree massa" meant, "yes, evil captor".
This man, Hari Jones (now deceased) was my source.
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bigdeneen technically it is bad English
Bougie Barb it’s not anymore but it derived from people speaking bad English until it turned into a new language. Like French and creole in haiti
@@victorpena3129 Why talk negative about their culture? Let the Gullah people have their positive Ideas. Let them be happy with what they think.
Liz Malone I’m trolling
To my Gullah/Geechees... The name Gullah is in the Strong's Bible dictionary as a Hebrew name on the Hebrew section 1353 (Please look this up for yourselves)
. Yah'll (we) are Hebrews. Our names were not mis-pronounced as Angola or Golas although some of our ancestors were from there. Geechees are the Yamasee or Yahmassee (Yah) (Yahweh) who were also Hebrews (Maroons, Guale, Yamacraw, Creek Aborigines) Cum-by-Yah, Ah-ha-Yah, We-Ben-Yah (We Son of Yah), Hallelu-Yah
Where can I found this I'm doing some research on my family.
Man, we're not Hebrews!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Beautiful film, beautiful people and culture. I thought 'Geechee' was a derogatorive term.
@Beautiful mil Okay. just for clarity sake, you want to be called Gullah or Geechee?
@@nashavi5738 Gullah is used more in SC and Geechee is used more in GA. It honestly doesn’t matter though.
I know the Wilson family from Sapalo Island
Beloved. Time to pack and step out of there. Future is Africa, Sierra-Leone is ready to welcome U. Home time. Our Ancestors are not joking.See the yellow, blue and red in the skies= KONGO. To stop our sufferings and this awful pinning for jesus. Sirius b , our ancestors=trumpets in the skies, the weather changes etc. Pack and escape?Africa- it is not that hard.
Not before we get our reparations - what is owed to us.
Stop Capp Gullah are from Congo and Angola most South Carolina slaves were from kingdom of Kongo not sierra Leon understand that stop telling fake history
Would yiu say most African Americans come from the gullah geeche people? My mom said that my Grandfather was Geeche.
No. Not most. But a good number.
Yep but we ain't african
Q Cutz most of us don’t come from the Gullah geechee but they have influenced the rest of our culture in a huge way. We all share similar DNA but being Gullah geechee is more of an experience......having family cool the same dishes in the same way, basket weaving, language, clothes, music. The rest of us African Americans do some things as the Gullah geechee do but they are a pretty distinct group compared to the rest of us
@@drellz9361 ?????????
We are Hebrew Israelites Who migrated to Africa
Rich history
Love being Geechee/Gullah but when are we gonna accept that some of our ancestors that came to Charleston were Muslim?
Or Hebrew Israelites
@@SV-ge8dr They said Muslim
Remember there was a time in history, where Muslim were conquering all, and Hebrews were given the choice convert or die!
Yessah...lol
Is Gullah an adaptation of Goulah? Goulah is a region in Sierra Leon. My Grandmother's Grandfather walked from South Carolina to Texas after emancipation.
Possibly, many Gullah ancestors come from Sierra Leone
@@jaxthewolf4572😂😂😂 u wrong it’s said Gullah came from Kikongo language which many black Americans came from Angola and Congo not sierra Leon Gullah it’s self was the short term for Angola not sierra Leon go reach history stop saying things u don’t know🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Huh......my grandparents and great grandparents etc... are all from South Carolina, and we was told none of this......! Where did y’all get this info from?
Being from South Carolina doesnt make you Gullah.. also... people get information from their ancestors and.... books.
smokey. mcwallace hello and thank you 😊 for your feedback
ShayPink 40 I know that you made this comment a year ago, but the answer is that some families have a shame or secrecy about their heritage, while others realize that it is a legacy. I’m not saying that yours was shameful, but many people aren’t made to feel comfortable sharing that their heritage and language are a result of a safety language like Geechee and scraps for food which makes our delicacies today. Oftentimes, heritage was looked down upon, and everyone just wanted to assimilate
What's the song (spiritual) title starting at the end of the video 1:30..about 6 mins and 50 secs from end.
I know her she lives not far from me
I do not mean one ounce of disrespect,but this guy looks like the dude on Happy Gilmore that lost his hand in a gators mouth😂
And on a more serious note,there is a Gullah Geechee festival here in St. Augustine FL. I always seem to find out about it after the fact🙄 I know it’s a wonderful gathering,and I’m so sorry I’ve missed it a few times over.... hopefully it will happen in 2021 and I will bee there!
God bless and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all y’all who are reading this❤️💛💚
Deuteronomy 28
Gen.15:12-14
43 days, 12 hrs., 20 mins to 400 years as slaves (H.R.1242)