Word, Shout, Song documents the historical journey made by people from Africa, their language, and their music, to the Americas. Exhibition open through March 27, 2010.
Through words, music, and story, Lorenzo Dow Turner discovered in the 1930s that the Gullah people of Georgia and South Carolina still possessed parts of the culture and language of their enslaved ancestors, which had long been believed lost.
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The end date is a typo. It should say this is through March 27, 2011.