%0 Journal Article
%T Gullah
%A Bradford Botwick
%J North American Archaeologist
%@ 1541-3543
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0197693118793795
%X Gullah-Geechee is a creole culture that emerged among enslaved African Americans in the coastal Southeastern United States. Modern material expressions of this culture include a distinctive settlement type, the family compound, consisting of loosely clustered residences and outbuildings. The arrangement of these settlements resembles colonial slave quarters but differs from antebellum ¡°slave rows.¡± Gullah-Geechee family compounds existed by the mid-20th century, but their origin, time depth, and evolution from linear quarters are unclear. Archaeological study of the Wilson¨CMiller plantation slave quarter near Savannah, occupied over most of the 19th Century, indicated that the Gullah-Geechee residential compound appeared soon after Emancipation. The study also suggested that communal outdoor space was important in maintaining cultural practices that were expressed in both colonial and post-Emancipation settlement patterns
%K Gullah-Geechee
%K plantation
%K settlement
%K Freedmen
%K African American
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0197693118793795