Gullah Storyteller Carolyn "Jabulile" White on "Bounce Around Charleston"

i rite from johns island en i juss haffa sey dis lady ya remind me so mucha my gran momma

Buckra is used anywhere Nigerian Igbos were transported during the slave trade. Specifically the Caribbean , South Carolina and North Carolina. "Buckra" is the Nigerian Igbo word for white man.

"Backrah" The very same word we use in Jamaica for white plantation owners Over time it has come to mean white people The use of this word can only be heard now in Louis Bennett poetry and amongst older folk and in more rural areas

I love learning about the Gullah Geechee history , beautiful

Being from lowcountry SC i have tons of gullah geechie speaking family in Charleston n St helena

My great grandmother was from the Carolinas and yes she was Geechee....... When we were young growing up in Chicago our friends always use to ask us "What your grandma say" 😁 because they didn't understand her right off the back...... 😜😁💜 And btw I was talking about my mother's grandma...her Father's Mom.....Then her Mother was from Arkansas and Louisiana and her parents were from Ireland.... My Father's Parents were from the Carolinas.... Arkansas..... Mississippi and Louisiana..... I was born Chicago....but everytime I meet people they would ask where am I from...... 😁 I say my family is from almost all corners of the 🌎...... #RealTalk

Oh my She is just WONDERFUL

My family, ma, pa, Sumter SC. Home In my blood.✊🏽🙏🏽👑 When she speaks, it’s my, Grandma talk’in to I.

I love this woman she a wonderful storyteller...I could listen to her all day! Great story!!!!

Ok... 4 anybody who was lost about the story @ the end... Here's the English translation. A young man wanted to marry a young lady so she went to ask for her father's blessings... Her father said no u can't marry that young man bc that's really your half brother but don't tell your mother. Eventually Another young man came along and wanted to marry her & the same thing happened again... come to find out that was her half brother too... And her father again said don't tell yo mother. Her mother saw her crying, ask her what's wrong so she finally told her mother her issue, Her mother told her she could have a great big wedding if she wanted to... That she could go ahead & marry the young man bc what her father didn't Kno was that shes was not biologically his child anyway!! 😂😂😂

That was a good story because older people have told me stories like this

My family (paternal side) is from a county near Kingstree, SC. Listening to her makes me feel like home.

"Looka heah!" lol...My grandparents used to say that. We are from the Piedmont though.

Love her sweet spirit!

From west Africa throughout all the islands in the Caribbean to the southern United States we’re all related my grandparents lived in Florida all their lives and they said some of the same words this lady is using and I do to my grandma used to tell us stories and she would have us captivated, she would have our full attention, I miss her so and her stories. Good teacher Mrs. Carolyn

She is so awesome!! I loved that story it reminds me so much of my grandmother. She always questioned us as kids about our crushes, boyfriends and girlfriends “what’s his last name”, “who’s her parents and grandparents” “where are they from” “find out because you don’t want to be liking your own cousin”. I got it from her and then my mom. I would be praying that we aren’t related.... LOL! Now I’m doing the same thing to my girls 😆

In Mississippi and Louisiana we talk just like this

Trinidadian calypso... yuh daddy is not yuh daddy but yuh daddy doh know. My my. Lol.

that was and is lovely.

I'm from Santee, SC and my grandparents/mom spoke like this... I do too, when I get deep in conversation, lol... I miss it, so!