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Originally Posted by Boreas
I always thought the Gullah culture was fundamentally rural.
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The origins certainly are, and very few young people can speak the language any more - I don't try to speak it but I understand it when spoken.
The sweetgrass basketmaking has survived and thrived on the lowcountry coast; art form brought by the captured slaves from mostly Sierra Leone, it is still handed down from one generation to the next.
They fetch big money - I have a closet full of them, couldn't afford them now.