'Our history is getting erased': the biggest threat to Sandy Island's Gullah is not hurricanes

A South Carolina community that has retained its African-influenced language weathered last week’s storm but faces other challenges to its future

Laura Herriott stepped off the Sandy Island landing dock into a fog-cloaked early morning covering the American mainland. Although only a passing car broke the silence it was louder than her island home, which lies a five-minute boat ride across the swollen Waccamaw river.

Secluded and nestled between two South Carolina rivers, Sandy Island houses a dozen homes for descendants of rice-cultivating West African slaves who created their own culture on the eastern seaboard, known as the Gullah.

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