Blog post #4: Sapelo Island, Georgia

As I mentioned below in another post, I spent a week in Georgia this summer studying slavery in the area with the National Endowment for the Humanities. My group spent a day on Sapelo Island, one of the few places that retains African and slave creole culture and language. The people who live there are decendants of slaves and have deep roots in the land.

We will be thinking and talking about land rights and who has a claim to the land. For your blog post, I want you to think through this idea of place and the importance of where you live. Does your family have ancestral land? If not, why not? What does that do to your identity? What does the land mean to the people of Sapelo? Who are they if they are not living there? You should refer directly to the articles and the book for this post. Photos can be found on Google or at this link: https://picasaweb.google.com/114303977036164408865



Cornelia Walker Bailey