Peering Into Pin Point - A Visit to the Pin Point Heritage Museum in Savannah Georgia
Dear Henry, Last year, when I went to Savannah , I stumbled upon one of the funnest little heritage sites in the area. The Pin Point Heritage Museum. The town is one of the last Gullah settlements in the country and the birthplace of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and has quite a story. The Gullah people are an American Ethno/Cultural group that developed from the descendants of the enslaved African people brought to the coastal rice plantations of Southern South Carolina and Northern Georgia. Most of the Gullah people were acquired from the West and Central rice-growing region of Africa and imported specifically for their knowledge and skill in growing rice. I will admit, it really bothered me to learn this. Up until this point, I had believed that slave acquisition was more haphazard and accidental. It wasn't. Slave traders knew precisely where to find the right people for a plantation. This allowed some commonality among the enslaved people in the rice plantations and al