I was born and raised in Southport I’m white but love this culture and it heavily influences my cooking cause I was raised on it still, there’s a lot in this video I didn’t know! I think it’s very important that the culture of African Americans is preserved and taught thanks so much for this video!

Our people need this 💯 It's time to get back to our roots that was stripped from us (African Americans)🎯

“Our history and our culture is American history and American culture.” Amen to that.

I am proud of my African ancestors

Solomon Reaves was my great grandfather.

This was incredibly informative!

A other thing people forget is yes gullah geeche people have ties whit serria leon but the gullah came from the word Ngola 🇦🇴 the first slave american where Angolan bakongo and mbundu so angola play a big role whit your ancestry

Fun fact: Carolina Gold rice belongs to the rice species oryza glabirrema which is indigenous to Africa and was domesticated by Africans thousands of years ago independently from the domestication of Asian rice oryza sativa in Asia. Europeans found large areas of cultivated rice in West Africa and carried rice and experienced planters to the Americas during the Slave Trade. Carolina Gold rice became a major food staple crop and the majority rice grown in the US until the Civil War era. Another African rice strain was Red Bearded Upland rice which was grown on dry land and hillsides. Thomas Jefferson imported a large cask of it and distributed it to different parts of the South hoping that it could replace wetland rice in mosquito and malaria prone areas, but as it required much more labour to plant, maintain and process it never caught on as a large scale commercial crop, but was grown by slaves and free blacks as a subsistence crop in some areas, until it too was phased out during the Civil War. Runaway slaves who joined the British army during the War of 1812 and who were later resettled in the British Caribbean colony of Trinidad took Red Bearded Upland rice cultivation to the island, where it is still grown as a heritage and minor commercial crop under the name Moruga Hill Rice

Thank you for a new history of North Carolina. Brunswick was indeed very important for the economy. I did not about the slaves bringing their skills in growing rice.

My greatgrandmother’s name was Eva Brown. Her maiden name is Sumpter. I’m trying to find my family. My mom told me that our people are Gullah Geechee

CORRECTION: great, great grandfather Lucy Reaves was my great grandmother.

I love North Carolinians and our culture. 🖤🖤

Upland rice is a variety of rice grown on dry land hillsides

I had no idea. I only thought they were in CHARLESTON.

So interesting

NO REPARATIONS NO VOTE..

Were any Gullah Geechee people in Halifax county North Carolina? Good video

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Keep talking about our history

I dont knoe why they keep forgeting the bahamas ?

Where's all these slave vessels?!🤣 We got Dinosaurs fossil, Meteors, and Not one slave ship! oh my!

An other Americans land

Y’all were slaves?

Stop the lye. Those ship were only coming from west indies. No africa

I am not Gullah Geechee

Fun fact: Carolina Gold rice belongs to the rice species oryza glabirrema which is indigenous to Africa and was domesticated by Africans thousands of years ago independently from the domestication of Asian rice oryza sativa in Asia. Europeans found large areas of cultivated rice in West Africa and carried rice and experienced planters to the Americas during the Slave Trade. Carolina Gold rice became a major food staple crop and the majority rice grown in the US until the Civil War era. Another African rice strain was Red Bearded Upland rice which was grown on dry land and hillsides. Thomas Jefferson imported a large cask of it and distributed it to different parts of the South hoping that it could replace wetland rice in mosquito and malaria prone areas, but as it required much more labour to plant, maintain and process it never caught on as a large scale commercial crop, but was grown by slaves and free blacks as a subsistence crop in some areas, until it too was phased out during the Civil War. Runaway slaves who joined the British army during the War of 1812 and who were later resettled in the British Caribbean colony of Trinidad took Red Bearded Upland rice cultivation to the island, where it is still grown as a heritage and minor commercial crop under the name Moruga Hill Rice