@ooopolish: I love telling this story and I’ll always tell this story on a yearly basis 🤲🏿#LanguageLearning #TikTokLearningCampaign #History #fyp #fypシ #historytok #EduTok #BlackHistory #greenscreen
There was a show back in the 90s on PBS that was called Gullah Gullah Island. It had a lot of black history. It was a kid show had a big green frog. I remember that a lot of nice songs but that’s when I first learned about the Gullah people
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🧸ྀི 🇵🇸 𓂆 :
This is what TikTok is for 😭
2025-09-24 04:21:33
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lagigigarza :
What an incredible story. Woman always keep history alive
2025-09-24 01:09:51
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Raynor Roberts :
Language is history. Without language there is no history.
2025-09-24 08:24:35
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WISDOM SPEAKS 369 ♉️🇻🇨 :
I learned this about Sierra Leone and the krio language last year when a friend and I started sharing information with each other about Africa's influence in the diaspora. also years ago I saw a video from Sierra Leone she I could understand their pidgin I could also understand certain places in Nigeria sound just like our dialect in svg
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King.Nix_ :
Yet some ppl going around saying they are indigenous to America 🇺🇸 🤦🏾♂
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madampampido :
How did people mistake this for any form of English?
2025-09-24 14:28:59
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anonymousee04 :
i feel sad for American Black community for not knowing where their ancestry is from. hope more get curious and try to connect to their roots.
2025-09-24 06:50:22
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OOO Polish :
Just a bit more information if you want to read more ❣️The documentary is called The Language You Cry In (1998). The names you can look up: Amelia Dawley, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Mary Moran, Joseph Opala. I promise you’ll learn something new ❤️I didn’t even get to the part where this all connects to a slave ship but maybe I’ll do that in my next video 🙏🏿
2025-09-24 10:15:17
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Marguerite Hemmin300 :
“This is the oldest song we know” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
2025-09-24 17:16:08
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Sid :
A funeral hymn, wow 💔
2025-09-24 04:22:35
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gscorcezi :
Weh mi Jamaican family deh?
2025-09-24 10:47:27
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skc :
Pretendians have left the room 😂
2025-09-24 06:50:06
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microdosingyourvalidation :
The thing that really hurt when I learned about this is a simple fact that that’s a grieving song which speaks to how much loss must have occurred for this to pass down so long throughout this enslaved black family 😩💔
2025-09-24 02:43:12
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MyYoungsweetlife :
As a Jamaican we need to protect patios
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c :
this is why archives are so important
2025-09-24 21:03:19
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britney.dtr :
I love linguistics, it’s so important 🥰
2025-09-24 10:43:45
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Jane Doe :
You are a phenomenal researcher and journalist
2025-09-24 00:12:53
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dyt :
The fact that it was a funeral song that was passed down among the enslaved descendants from that village is very telling 😞
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Tebo :
You see FBAs, you can't escape your lineage...You are African!You are the blueprint yes youre right and thats because you are from Africa just like the rest of us melenated people.💯Please dont make this difficult than it already is.
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username86753091800 :
This is so heartbreaking but beautiful. Separated by violence and centuries, they’re still able to have a connection to the family their ancestors were torn away from. I hope that the tradition has carried on for future generations. So powerful.
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encyclopediabrwnskngirl 🇺🇸 :
Our Gullah Geechee fambul kept the language, traditions & culture alive! Our cousins have traced our family back to Mende in 🇸🇱... we are still here!
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Stacey :
Did my African Ancestry a few years ago and I am Mende from Sierra Leon. Will be going soon,taking some family photos & try to find some of my people!
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TheMaryAnn :
I knew as soon as she started singing it was Gullah Geechee. I grew up hearing the language spoken around me. ❤
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☆STARR☆ :
This just proves that "African Americans" are African thier ancestors originate from Africa which makes them AFRICAN the only reason why they in the
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