Look what came in today’s mail! Gullah Geechee author Ebony Allen Toussaint, PhD, wrote "G is for Gullah" to teach children the alphabet while educating them about Gullah Geechee culture. We sell the book at the Gullah Museum of Georgetown!
Gullah Museum of Georgetown
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We seek to preserve Gullah Geechee history & culture by educating the public about how we shaped America. Open Mon. - Sat. 11 am - 4 pm. Closed Sundays. gullahmuseumsc.com #BLM #BlackHistory #AddToBlackSky
It’s raining hard so I’m making new items for the museum’s gift shop, my Etsy shop, & upcoming festivals. We have new adjustable Gullah O’oman cameo rings, small and large cameo brooches. And, of course, our gullahmuseumsc.com mini blue bottle trees. gullahshop.etsy.com
Peoples living in the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor know what I’m cooking for breakfast on the Fourth of July! This recipe is older than our country! (Our red rice and our Louisiana cousins’ jambalaya are Africanisms.)
Happy Amistad Slave Revolt Day! On this day in 1839, a rice farmer named Sengbe Pieh—also known as Joseph Cinqué—led the African captives aboard the slave ship La Amistad in a revolt, breaking free from their chains and seizing the ship. Let’s get into some slave resistance!
For forever, teachers in the U.S. taught school children that George Washington had a mouth full of wooden dentures. In fact they were a mix of wine-stained hippopotamus ivory, human teeth—from Africans enslaved on his Mount Vernon Plantation—brass screws, and gold wire.
We’re ready for Suessical Jr. — The Musical at Winyah Auditorium in historic Georgetown, SC!
Stop by the museum for the Ag+Art Tour! We have special guest artisans and more!
On this day—June 21, 1832—marks trailblazer Joseph Hayne Rainey was born in Georgetown, South Carolina. He was the first African American, and Gullah Geechee, elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1870 . He served five consecutive terms during the Reconstruction era.
The boss, aka the baby sister, said the museum needed some children’ jewelry so I Shazamed these up using leather cord and handmade, fused-glass, Krobo beads from #Ghana.
Juneteenth commemorates the effective end of slavery in the U.S in 1865. Bubba #sunnmcheaux recently pointed out that this didn’t include the Indian Territory. The Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment only legally applied to U.S. states and rebellious territories.
There’s a saying passed down from earlier generations of Black Texans who were there for the first Juneteenth: “It was not a piece of paper that freed the slaves, but the men with the guns.”
We are big fans of Tastee Treats a Gullah Geechee specialty foods company owned by Michael Allen and his wife Latanya Allen, who learned to cook from her mother and to bake from her grandmother. The peach cobbler syrup is like eating my mother’s version in liquid form! blacknews.com/news/latanya...
Join the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor in historic downtown Georgetown, South Carolina for the 2026 Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor South Carolina Summit a two-day gathering celebrating culture, community and preservation. Register: gullahgeecheecorridor.org/event/
Today, the Gullah Museum of Georgetown’s staff had to ask a guest to leave because he was making other guests uncomfortable with his comments. It started over the venerable Joseph H. Rainey, of Georgetown, SC, the 1st black American ever seated in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Join us at the Lincolnville HomeTown Festival today, 5/30, from 1-6 pm! We’ll have books for children and adults on Gullah Geechee history and culture, jewelry, mini blue bottle trees and more!
The original name for Memorial Day was Decoration Day, and it was started by formerly enslaved and free Gullah Geechee people in Charleston, SC, some of whom fought in the 1st and 2nd South Carolina Colored Regiments and other U.S. Colored Troops.
Enslaved and free Black men formed the backbone of the American colonies' maritime industries. This work offered enslaved men unique autonomy and provided free Black men with pathways to financial independence, political agency, and community leadership.
We’ll be in Lincolnville, S.C. on 5/30 for the festival! The site is historically significant as one of the oldest Black-founded towns in the U.S. We’ll have books on Gullah Geechee history and culture for adults & children, activities for kids, & more! lincolnvillesc.org
Vermelle “Bunny” Smoth Rodrigues, our mother, would be 88 today. She was the driving force behind the Gullah Museum of Georgetown. We continue her work to tell the story of the Gullah Geechee people and how we shaped America. This is one of several long interviews she did. youtu.be/U6rlzkfSZDc?...
In early May 13, 1862, the enslaved Gullah Geechee crew of the military transport the CSS Planter—Robert Smalls, John Small, Alfred Gourdine, and Abraham Jackson, Gabriel Turner, David Jones, Jack Gibs—began a series of secret meetings that would lead to one of the most daring escapes in history.
We are pleased to share the good news that the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission has chosen a new leader—Djuanna Brockington!
Let’s get into why ⚪️’s became depicting people of African descent as monkeys. The origin is rooted in a centuries-old, systematic effort to dehumanize Black people, dating back to early European colonial to justify slavery, colonialism, and white supremacy.
FREE EVENT: SINO Speakers Series: Safeguarding Our United States History, Saturday, Feb 21, 2026, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM, 150 Meeting St, Charleston, SC 29401. THIS EVENT WILL ALSO BE LIVE STREAMED AT www.youtube.com/@CircularChu... RECORDING MAY BE WATCHED LATER AT www.youtube.com/@CircularChu...
Botanists may debate where sesame seeds originated from, but we know that the plant has been cultivated in Africa for millennia. Sesame seeds were brought to the Americas by enslaved Africans like the ancestors of the #Gullah #Geechee. #Senegal #Mali #Mauritania #HiddenHistory
They can remove names and historical incidents from federal entities. They can remove MLK Day and Juneteenth from National Parks Fee-Free Days. Black folk are unbowed and unbothered. We have been through this before—and still we rise. That and the internet is forever.
HAPPENING TODAY: Come meet Santa Claus—“Sanyd Claw” in Gullah—and take free photos with him at the Gullah Museum on 11/29 and 12/13 from 11 am - 12 pm. We’re at 123 King Street, Georgetown, SC—behind the Wells Fargo Bank on Front Street in the historic district.
Happy Turkey Day! The reigning Mrs. South Carolina America Julie Holmes and her family stopped by the Gullah Museum of Georgetown today! Museum Director Beatrice Rodrigues gave them a special tour. Thanks for visiting, Julie!
Come meet Santa Claus—Sanyd Claw in Gullah—and take free photos with him at the Gullah Museum on 11/29 and 12/13 from 11 am - 12 pm. We’re at 123 King Street, Georgetown, SC—behind the Wells Fargo Bank on Front Street in the historic district.