Talk:Sea Islands

reference
reference for Sea Islands: http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/S/SeaIsls.html

I believe it is incorrect to refer to these islets as an archipelago

12.65.19.13 19:01, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

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This article has been reassessed from Top to Low importance. It remains a Stub. Lagrange613 (talk) 18:18, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Resolving more footnotes tag
To resolve the more footnotes tag, I am moving uncited content hoping that someone is interested in the research:
 * Both chiefdoms extended to the coastal areas on the mainland. The Mocama Province included territory to the St. Johns River in present-day Florida.  The mission system ended under pressure of repeated raids by English South Carolina colonists and Indian allies. Spain ceded its territory of Florida to Great Britain in 1763.
 * After 18th-century European-American settlement of Georgia and Florida, planters purchased and enslaved Africans for labor. Many were used to work the labor-intensive cotton, rice, and indigo plantations on the Sea Islands, which generated much of the wealth of the colony and state. The enslaved developed the notable and distinct Gullah/Geechee Creole culture and language which has survived to contemporary times.
 * During the American Civil War, the Union Navy and the Union Army soon occupied the islands. The white planter families had fled to other locations on the mainland, sometimes leaving behind their slaves.  The slaves largely ran their own lives during this period.  They had already created cohesive communities, because planter families often stayed on the mainland to avoid malaria and the isolation of the islands. Large numbers of slaves worked on the rice and indigo plantations, and had limited interaction with whites, which enabled them to develop their own distinct culture. During the war, the Union Army managed the plantations and assigned plots of land to slaves for farming.
 * After the war, although the freedmen hoped to be given land as compensation for having worked it for so many years in slavery, the federal government generally returned properties to the planters returning from their refuges or exile. Many of the freedmen stayed in the area, working on their former plantations as sharecroppers, tenant farmers or laborers as the system changed to free labor.
 * In 1893 the islands were damaged by the Sea Islands Hurricane.
 * In the 1950s and 1960s the Sea Islands, like other African-American communities, were the scene of intensive activity by the Civil Rights Movement, of which a prominent local leader was Esau Jenkins.
 * In recent years, the islands have been extensively developed for upscale resort, recreational, and residential use.

(I have been fixing a number of articles, like Hiram Wilson and Fugitive slaves in the United States, and may come back to this.)–CaroleHenson (talk) 22:28, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your work! Muttnick (talk) 16:26, 24 June 2021 (UTC)