LOW COUNTRY
Beaufort County • South Carolina • Georgia
Gullah People
The Low Country is a geographic and cultural region along South Carolina’s coast, including the Sea Islands with the Gullah people.
The Low Country of South Carolina generally includes the counties of Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper. This is often described as the area between the Savannah and Ashley Rivers.
Robert Smalls, an African American, born in Beaufort, on Port Royal Island, in the heart of the Sea Islands and South Carolina Lowcountry. He freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862.
Robert Smalls’ loyal example and persuasion helped convince President Abraham Lincoln to accept African American soldiers into the Union Army. He became a politician, winning election to the South Carolina Legislature and several terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Smalls authored state legislation providing for South Carolina to have the first free and compulsory public school system in the United States. Smalls spent nine months learning to read and write. He purchased a two-story Beaumont building to use as a school for African American children.
The Brunswick and Georgia area Gullah People are distinguished by identifying as either “Freshwater Geechee” or “Saltwater Geechee”, depending on whether they live on the mainland or the Sea Islands.
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