Gullah/Geechee: Africa's Seeds In the Winds of the African Diaspora Vol I: St. Helena's Serenity

by Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine

"St. Helena's Serenity" is Volume 1 of a thirty volume series on the history, heritage, and culture of Gullah/Geechees written by Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com). Queen Quet begins this journey of "Gullah/Geechee: Africa's Seeds in the Winds of the Diaspora" by being the first to write a history of historic St. Helena Island, SC which tells the history of the arrival of the Africans onto this Sea Island up to the modern day struggles and triumphs in keeping the Gullah/Geechee culture alive on this island and to keep the land in the hands of Gullah/Geechees. This book contains history of such historic sites at Penn School, the Chapel of Ease, and numerous plantations that exist on St. Helena Island from which the people living there and the living communities and family compounds of today draw their names. Fa yeddi bout who de Gullah/Geechee be, tun de page een "St. Helena's Serenity."

74 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 26, 2014