WITHOUT THE GULLAHS
THE GULLAHS
The first contemporary female doctors (MD’s) in America were Gullah women. Gullah’s is a title created by whites and given to Africans that lived near the sea and rivers. The Gullah area includes Tidewater, Virginia, parts of the Chesapeake Bay, and extends 50 miles inland, continuing down the east coast to Mayport, Florida. The titles Gullah, Trinidadian, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, Latino, Creole, etc., were created by Whites to keep Africans mistrustful and divided form each other.
The Gullah were forcefully brought to the Sea Islands because the Europeans were without resources, land, labor, and the technology needed to build their wealth, empires and American colonies. The Gullah captives possessed skills in agriculture, science, military science, tool making, bookkeeping, cabinet making, furniture making, construction, banking, government, teaching, and most of all, they had 10,000 years of culture in the most developed civilization in the world – that of Africa. It is the African technology that produced European and American wealth.
One of the reasons why African Holistic Health remedies have not been utilized is because it was illegal for Euro-American doctors and drug stores to use African trained Gullah doctors in their practices. Midwives were actually the ones who latterly practice medicine on the families.
For more information purchase the book "The Gullahs" on the on-line store page.
Selected readings:
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man
A Saltwater Geechee Talks about Life on Sapelo Island.
By H. Bailey, Cornelia and Christena Bledsoe.
The Gullahs
Gullah Negro life in the Carolina Sea Islands
By Mason Crum
The Encyclopedia of American Facts about Dates
By G. Carruth
The Gullahs Who escaped Slavery
By Joseph A. Opala
The Gullahs
By Llaila o. Afrika
My Friend the Gullah
By James Gary Black
The Water Brought Us
By Branch Muriel Miller.
