Black History Month is/
Afrikan Heritage Month 2013

South Carolina Gullah, around 1900
Charleston Street vendor

The Gullah People preserved the culture and language of the West Afrikan land from which they came.


Mende women
Mrs. Ida Wilson, coastal South Carolina, 1965. Gullah women still offer their baskets for sale along Route 17 north of Charleston. These baskets are constructed almost exactly like the Sierra Leone shukublay.