ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song passed down from her enslaved ancestors who were forced ...

“Voices of Gullah” members (from left), Joe Murray, Minnie “Gracie” Gadson, Rosa Murray and Charles “Jojo” Brown, sing Gullah spirituals on July 19 at the Brick Baptist Church in St. Helena Island.

“A lot of our songs were coded, and this language is a language of survival, a language of resilience, a language of tenacity,” Singleton-Prather said, adding that despite slavery’s brutality, the ...

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. — Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song passed down from her enslaved ancestors who were forced to ...

The show highlights Gullah contributions during the American Revolution, including rice farming and indigo dying. Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, ...