Sierra Leone, 8.5, -11.51997Baindu Jabati (left) and Mary Moran were the only two women to remember a Mende funeral song performed as part of the village tradition in Senehun Ngola, Sierra Leone. The song was passed down through Moran's family in Georgia from her enslaved ancestors, who were related to Jabati's ancestors in Sierra Leone.Photograph of Baindu Jabati (left) and Mary Moran, of Harris Neck, Georgia, who were the only two women to remember a Mende funeral song performed as part of the village tradition in Senehun Ngola, Sierra Leone. The song was passed down through Moran's family in Georgia from her enslaved ancestors, who were related to Jabati's ancestors in Sierra Leone.In 1997 the two women met in the African village to share and reenact what was understood as a Mende funeral song, sung only by the women of Jabati's family lineage, who conducted the funerals of the village. Evidence suggests that a female member of Moran's family had been forced into captivity from the village nearly 200 years before.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/geechee-and-gullah-cultureForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/geechee-and-gullah-cultureForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaAfrican American women--Sierra LeoneWomen--Sierra LeoneGullah women--Sierra LeoneGullahs--Sierra LeoneJabati, BainduJabati and MoranStillImage