South Carolina's Sea Islands strongly influenced by Africa culture. Geechee and Gullah languages spoken on the island along with English. These languages were of African slaves, who toiled on rice plantations. In the 1700s, Africans picked from countries like Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia for their knowledge of rice cultivation in a humid climate like the Sea Islands of South Carolina. African American worked in the plantations of rice for years, and after the Civil War, these plantation lands were given to several freed slaves to start a new life. By living on the Sea Islands of South Carolina, they have embraced their traditions in music, food, spirituality, and language.
