Check out this broadcast of part 4 of the “Gullah/Geechee Nation International Music & Movement Festival™ 2009.” This segment includes an ancestral tribute at the Wanderer Memorial on Jekyll Island, GA in the Gullah/Geechee Nation. The Wanderer Memorial was erected at St. Andrews Picnic Area to remember the people who died on that last known ship to smuggle slaves into the United States and deliver them into captivity.

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