BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) -- That four-state committee working to preserve the culture of slave descendants in the Southeast is meeting on the South Carolina coast.
The Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission meets on Friday in Bluffton. The panel is putting together a management plan to help preserve the sea island culture that is threatened by rapid development.
The culture is known Gullah in the Carolinas and Geechee in Florida and Georgia. The corridor runs from Wilmington, N.C., down along the Southeast coast to Jacksonville, Fla.
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