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Geechee

American  
[gee-chee] / ˈgi tʃi /

noun

  1. Gullah.


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The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of Africans who were enslaved on plantations along the south-eastern US coast, including in South Carolina.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2025

He connects that influence to a dish from his own childhood, Chicken Bob— a comforting Gullah Geechee dish his mother often made.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2025

The writer traveled to seven praise houses in South Carolina and Georgia, along the Gullah Geechee Corridor.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2023

Nearby, an elderly member of South Carolina’s Gullah Geechee people — descendants of Africans who were forced to labor on plantations along the Atlantic Coast — was busy weaving a traditional hat out of sweetgrass.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023

It’s one of just a few surviving communities in the South of people known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia, whose ancestors worked island slave plantations.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2023