Daughters in the Dust

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In this film Daughter of the Dust, at the turn of the century, Sea Island Gullahs decedents of African captive, remained isolated from the mainland of South Carolina and Georgia. As a result of their isolation, the Gullah created and maintained a distinct American Culture. Charleston had a large black population. It’s the place where some enslaved Africans were brought and transported during the Atlantic Slave Trade. The film showcased their location, migration, African spirituality, family and the role of African women.
Diaspora is defined as a group of people who live outside the area in which they had lived for a long time or in which their ancestors lived. As for the film the Peazant family makes the connection by locating their self among the Gullah people of the Atlantic Sea Islands, off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. They were brought to the continent as slaves of their Ibo landing. They migrated to the islands which were their first stop to New World. Most left the island of the misery they faced on the plantation, but some remained to grow and work. With the is...

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