Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor

Congress designated this corridor in 2006, stretching from North Carolina to Florida, to preserve and interpret the culture of the Gullah Geechee people — descendants of West and Central Africans enslaved on coastal rice, cotton, and indigo plantations. Because those plantations sat on isolated barrier islands and coastal lowlands, the people who worked them held onto their African traditions, their foodways, their arts, and a creole language, Gullah, spoken nowhere else on earth. The corridor is the federal acknowledgment that what survived deserves to keep surviving.