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Gullah

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Gul·lah  (gl)
n.
1. One of a group of people of African ancestry inhabiting the Sea Islands and coastal areas of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida.
2. The creolized language of the Gullahs, based on English but including vocabulary elements and grammatical features from several African languages and spoken in isolated communities from Georgetown in eastern South Carolina to northern Florida.
[Perhaps alteration of Angola or from Gola, a people of Sierra Leone and Liberia.]
Gullah [ˈgʌlə]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -lahs, -lah a member of a Negroid people living on the Sea Islands or in the coastal regions of South Carolina, Georgia, and NE Florida
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the creolized English spoken by these people


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It is difficult to tell whether Morrison had any particular models in mind when crafting Beloved, but one possible source she might allude to is a tale recorded from the Gullah people about "Daid Aaron" (cf.
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Herskovits (1941) and his students, and Lorenzo Dow Turner's study of the Gullah language (1949).
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As the 19th century comes to its close, Rose is content to watch over her baby brother and to play among the Gullah children on the South Carolina plantation where she has lived all of her life.
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