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Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1994 - 6/30/1996

Funding Totals

$36,942.00 (approved)
$36,941.75 (awarded)

TransAtlantic Linkage: The Gullah/Geechee-Sierra Leone Connection

FAIN: GM-25198-94

Coastal Georgia Historical Society (St. Simons Island, GA 31522)
Linda O. King (Project Director: December 1993 to November 1996)

To support a traveling exhibition and scholarly symposium on the history of cultural similarities between inhabitants of Sierra Leone and descendants of slaves in the Georgia and South Carolina Sea Islands.