Gullah women weave sweetgrass straw baskets in the tradition of their ancestors enslaved from West Africa during the Gullah Festival in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Gullah culture and language also known as Sea Island Creole English formed in isolated coastal islands of African-Americans along South Carolina and Georgia.

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Gullah women weave sweetgrass straw baskets in the tradition of their ancestors enslaved from West Africa during the Gullah Festival in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Gullah culture and language also known as Sea Island Creole English formed in isolated coastal islands of African-Americans along South Carolina and Georgia.

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Location: Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA
Photo credit: © Richard Ellis / Alamy / Afripics
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