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ProfClaiborne
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I profess about American & African American Literature-SC raised-suffering from an extreme case of drapetomania. (All views are my own and not my employer’s).
Jun 17, 2021 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
It is important that as we celebrate #Juneteenth  and freedom this weekend, that we also recognize how for the descendants of the #Gullah Geechee, the year 1865 marked the opposite—the broken promises and dashed dreams of freedom. A Thread: I am a descendent of Gullah people, who were given a taste and a test of freedom immediately at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. All the white people ran scared & black folks in Beaufort and surrounding islands began to imagine freedom concretely. blackpast.org/african-americ…