GULLAH LANGUAGE

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GULLAHLANGUAGE

• Brooke N. Daniels
• Teaching American History 4
• Princeton City Schools

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• Content Objective SWBT identify the location of
  the Gullah Islands as well as list the reasons
  its inhabitants where stationed there.
• Language Objective SWBT retell the reasons why
  Africans were brought to the Gullah Islands and
  describe the effects isolationism on those people
  .

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Key Vocabulary

• Isolation
• Gullah Islands
• South Carolina
• Plantation
• Rice

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• What is the long term effect of isolation on
  language?

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Why Rice?

• Rice grew well
• Rice made money
• Location, Location, Location

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• Why Slaves from West Africa-Sierra Leone?
• Had success cultivating rice in their native
  country

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Aspects

• Gold Coast Africans
• First stop of the Triangular Trade Caribbean
  Islands

• More English than African words
• Differences Sound, Word Form, and Syntax
• New Words

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• Effects on Language
• Few changes are made
• Original language preserved
• Gullah Language

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Ticket OutISOLATION

• What is it?
• How did isolation serve the purpose of the white
  masters?
• What happens in isolation?