- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Sapelo Island Cultural Day
- Date of Original:
- 1708/2022
- Subject:
- Festivals--Georgia--Sapelo Island
Singers--Georgia--Sapelo Island
African American singers--Georgia--Sapelo Island
Buildings--Georgia--Sapelo Island
Folk festivals--Georgia--Sapelo Island
Women singers--Georgia--Sapelo Island
African American women singers--Georgia--Sapelo Island
Barrier islands--Georgia
Women--Georgia--Sapelo Island
African American women--Georgia--Sapelo Island
Musicians--Georgia--Sapelo Island
African American musicians--Georgia--Sapelo Island
Women musicians--Georgia--Sapelo Island
African American women musicians--Georgia--Sapelo Island
Sapelo Island (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, McIntosh County, Sapelo Island, 31.39745, -81.27871
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Singers perform during the Sapelo Island Cultural Day, held each October on the island. The festival celebrates the songs, stories, dances, and food of the Geechee and Gullah culture, which developed on the Sea Islands among enslaved West Africans between 1750 and 1865.
Photograph of singers performing during the Sapelo Island Cultural Day, held each October on Sapelo Island, Georgia. The singers stand on stage positioned in front of a wooden building. They wear bright orange skirts. The festival celebrates the songs, stories, dances, and food of the Geechee and Gullah culture, which developed on the Sea Islands among enslaved West Africans between 1750 and 1865.
Approximately 115 people now reside on Sapelo, either permanently or temporarily, with the majority of them at the 434-acre African American community of Hog Hammock. That community still consists primarily of descendants of Thomas Spalding's slaves. A combination of Christian and Islamic religious beliefs, the Geechee culture on Sapelo Island has remained virtually unchanged, thanks to the island's geographic isolation. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/geechee-and-gullah-culture/m-4620/
- Rights Holder:
- Photograph by Jennifer Cruse Sanders
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/geechee-and-gullah-culture
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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