Call Me Gullah: An American Heritage
Book Details
Author(s)R. H. Brown
PublisherR. H. Brown & Company
ISBN / ASINB0043EV9YA
ISBN-13978B0043EV9Y0
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧
Description
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“Call Me Gullah: An American Heritageâ€
Veteran news reporter and motivational lecturer R. H. Brown, has written an entertaining book packed with interesting information. The short autobiographical work features the life of the television personality, born on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Brown is a member of the Gullah Community living on sea coast islands.
The Gullah people have an indigenous kinship to West Africans of Sierra Leone. Rust College in Holly Springs and Mississippi University For Women in Columbus, are just two institutions of higher learning where Brown has participated in lecture series highlighting his Gullah culture.
The Gullah boasts of having the “purest bloodline†of all African slaves brought to North America in wooden ships. For the most part the culture, cuisine, and dialect of the Gullah have remained virtually unchanged for hundreds of years. It’s been nearly a decade since R. H. Brown began reporting the news for WCBI-TV, a CBS affiliate in Columbus, Mississippi. Brown wrote the book “Call Me Gullah: An American Heritage†published by AuthorHouse in 2005. A second edition was published by R. H. Brown & Company in 2006.
“Call Me Gullah: An American Heritageâ€
Veteran news reporter and motivational lecturer R. H. Brown, has written an entertaining book packed with interesting information. The short autobiographical work features the life of the television personality, born on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Brown is a member of the Gullah Community living on sea coast islands.
The Gullah people have an indigenous kinship to West Africans of Sierra Leone. Rust College in Holly Springs and Mississippi University For Women in Columbus, are just two institutions of higher learning where Brown has participated in lecture series highlighting his Gullah culture.
The Gullah boasts of having the “purest bloodline†of all African slaves brought to North America in wooden ships. For the most part the culture, cuisine, and dialect of the Gullah have remained virtually unchanged for hundreds of years. It’s been nearly a decade since R. H. Brown began reporting the news for WCBI-TV, a CBS affiliate in Columbus, Mississippi. Brown wrote the book “Call Me Gullah: An American Heritage†published by AuthorHouse in 2005. A second edition was published by R. H. Brown & Company in 2006.
