GULLAH
LANGUAGE
Brooke N. Daniels
Teaching American History 4
Princeton City Schools
• Content Objective: SWBT identify
the location of the Gullah Islands as
well as list the reasons its inhabitants
where stationed there.
• Language Objective: SWBT retell
the reasons why Africans were
brought to the Gullah Islands and
describe the effects isolationism on
those people .
Key Vocabulary
• Isolation
• Gullah Islands
• South Carolina
• Plantation
• Rice
What is the long term effect of
isolation on language?
Why Rice?
• Rice grew well
• Rice made money
• Location, Location, Location
Why Slaves from West AfricaSierra Leone?
Had success cultivating rice in
their native country
Aspects
• More English
• Gold Coast
than African
Africans
words
• First stop of
•
Differences:
the Triangular
Sound, Word
Trade
Form, and Syntax
Caribbean
• New Words
Islands
Effects on Language
• Few changes are made
• Original language preserved
• Gullah Language
Ticket Out
ISOLATION
• What is it?
• How did isolation serve the purpose of the
white masters?
• What happens in isolation?