Comments on: In Memory of Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis: Chair of Black Studies @ SUNY New Paltz http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/01/in-memory-of-dr-margaret-wade-lewis-chair-of-black-studies-suny-new-paltz/ Celebrating Academic Scholarship in the Black Community Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:02:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Sadie Pasha http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/01/in-memory-of-dr-margaret-wade-lewis-chair-of-black-studies-suny-new-paltz/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Sadie Pasha Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:31:15 +0000 http://blackscholarsindex.com/?p=3493#comment-361 Symposium on the work of Lorenzo Dow Turner, "the father of Gullah studies" to be held on November 12 - 13, 2010 Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum Washington, DC (202) 287-3183 Connecting the worlds of the Africa Diaspora: The Living Legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner Symposium on the work of Lorenzo Dow Turner, “the father of Gullah studies” to be held on November 12 – 13, 2010
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
Washington, DC (202) 287-3183

Connecting the worlds of the Africa Diaspora:
The Living Legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner

]]> By: Sadie Pasha http://www.blackscholarsindex.com/2010/01/in-memory-of-dr-margaret-wade-lewis-chair-of-black-studies-suny-new-paltz/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Sadie Pasha Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:44:07 +0000 http://blackscholarsindex.com/?p=3493#comment-360 We must write our own history, or in other words, tell our unique story. Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis was a historian. In writing the book Dr. Lorenzo Dow Turner: The Father of Gullah Studies, published by South Carolina Press, on his research and connection of the West African language dialect to "Geechee" people and the Gullah language dialect spoken during slavery, and still spoken in Georgetown, South Carolina today, she has continued his legacy, and educated many, though his findings have been used by others, who have not credited Turner's ground breaking work conducted in South Carolina, Georgia and Sierra Leone in the late twenties and thirties. He began his research in Georgetown County, South Carolina. My mother's people are from Georgetown, and so is Mrs. Obama's people on her father's side. I was raised in East Harlem, NY and recall many Georgetown stories of our family, and traditions. Mother always said "we were Geechee", and the language dialect spoken in Georgetown was Gullah. I will be attending a Symposium on November 12, called The living legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner: Sadie Pasha Genealogist and Writer of Cohen of Georgetown, South Carolina 1750-1950: A Family History of Low Country Secret Jews and Descendants (Unpublished Manuscript) We must write our own history, or in other words, tell our unique story. Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis was a historian. In writing the book Dr. Lorenzo Dow Turner: The Father of Gullah Studies, published by South Carolina Press, on his research and connection of the West African language dialect to “Geechee” people and the Gullah language dialect spoken during slavery, and still spoken in Georgetown, South Carolina today, she has continued his legacy, and educated many, though his findings have been used by others, who have not credited Turner’s ground breaking work conducted in South Carolina, Georgia and Sierra Leone in the late twenties and thirties. He began his research in Georgetown County, South Carolina. My mother’s people are from Georgetown, and so is Mrs. Obama’s people on her father’s side. I was raised in East Harlem, NY and recall many Georgetown stories of our family, and traditions. Mother always said “we were Geechee”, and the language dialect spoken in Georgetown was Gullah.
I will be attending a Symposium on November 12, called The living legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner:

Sadie Pasha
Genealogist and Writer of
Cohen of Georgetown, South Carolina 1750-1950:
A Family History of Low Country Secret Jews and Descendants (Unpublished Manuscript)

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