Arch 221 Freedom Communities

Where are the Gullah Geechee located?

Sea Islands and coastal areas of South

Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida, USA

Who are the descendants of the Gullah Geechee?

Enslaved Africans (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal, Angola) brought to rice, indigo, and cotton plantations.

Where is are the Afro-Mestizo located?

Coastal Guerrero,

Oaxaca, Mexico, Costa Chica

How did Costa Chica people get here?

Africans brought to New Spain in

the 16th century; escaped slaves

(Cimarrones) intermarried with

Indigenous peoples.

Who makes up the Creole people?

Enslaved Africans, French, Spanish, and Indigenous intermixing; free people of color developed unique Creole identity.

Where is Africatown located?

Mobile, AL

How did Africatown come to be?

Founded by survivors of the Clotilda (1860), the last slave ship to the U.S., who built a self-sufficient post-emancipation community.

Where were the Suriname Maroons located?

Interior rainforests of Suriname and French Guiana

What groups made up the Suriname Maroons

Escaped enslaved Africans(mainly Akan,  Kongo, and Yoruba) who fled plantations and negotiated autonomy treaties.

Where are the Jamaican maroons located

Blue Mountains and Cockpit Country,

Jamaica