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Descended: Searching for My Gullah-Geechee Roots

Descended: Searching for My Gullah-Geechee Roots

Rushing, Keith

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralBlack American HistoryRegional: South

Publisher Price: $25.99

ISBN10: 1643365622
ISBN13: 9781643365626
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.85 Depth: 8.53
Language: English

A mysterious name initiates a journey to discover one family's past, and reveals more than was expected

It began with a name. Sancho. Gleaned from the memory of his oldest living relative, that name set author Keith Rushing on a quest to recover his family's story.

Rushing came to learn that Sancho was an African name, a common practice among the Gullah-Geechee communities of the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands. He found that Sancho had been born into slavery on Hilton Head Island and later fought as a soldier in a war for self-emancipation. Rushing learned that after that war Sancho had become a small landowner. Above all, he discovered that his family's story was richer than he had ever imagined.

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