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“Yea Chaa’stun Stories een Gullah” 26 Jul 2011 | 04:47 am
Charleston Magazine, April/May 1993 By Amy Adams “Yea Chaa’stun Stories een Gullah” “Yenna who roll ya eye ’bout Chaa’stun?” Charismatic and down-to-earth tour guide Alphonso Brown, his smiling bro...
The Muslim Journal 26 Jul 2011 | 04:45 am
The Muslim Journal Vol. 18, No. 30 May 14, 1993 By Sabir Kasib Muhammad The historic city of Charleston, S.C. speaks volumes to the seeker of knowledge about the “coming-to-America” of Africans made...
Southern Living, February, 1995 26 Jul 2011 | 04:43 am
“Yenna wan’ cass ya eye ’bout Chaa’stun?” This invitation (Translation: Do you want to see [cast your eyes about] Charleston?) flows from Alphonso Brown’s tongue in the liquid dialect of South Carolin...
The Grand Dames of the South 26 Jul 2011 | 04:37 am
by Randi Johnson In the 1800′s Charleston was one of the riches cities in the colonies. Tobacco, rice, indigo and of course, “King Cotton” were the crops in which the enslaved African toiled. There’...
Charles Kuralt’s – “America” 26 Jul 2011 | 04:31 am
“‘John C. KILL-hoon,’ that’s what we call old John.”I was in the company of Alphonso Brown, band director at Rivers Middle School, black historian and speaker of Gullah, the rich black patois of the C...
A Path Through Gullah Country 26 Jul 2011 | 04:17 am
Author(s): Tatsha Robertson, Globe Staff Date: December 1, 2002 Page: M1 Section: Travel Alphonso Brown is sitting in the driver’s seat of his tour bus and telling one of his famous folktales as vis...
The Brown Fellowship Society 26 Jul 2011 | 04:12 am
No Where To Lay My Body Down. The early history of Charleston’s black citizens is filled with mystery, intrigue, and many unanswered questions. For example, what does a black cemetery on upper Meeting...
The Last to Leave (McLeod’s Plantation) 26 Jul 2011 | 03:59 am
In the year 1671, the Council of Province ordered a town to be established on James Island. McLeod’s Plantation (not called McLeod’s at that time) became a part of James Island around 1696. The proper...
“Yea Chaa’stun Stories een Gullah” 26 Jul 2011 | 12:47 am
Charleston Magazine, April/May 1993 By Amy Adams “Yea Chaa’stun Stories een Gullah” “Yenna who roll ya eye ’bout Chaa’stun?” Charismatic and down-to-earth tour guide Alphonso Brown, his smiling brown ...
The Muslim Journal 26 Jul 2011 | 12:45 am
The Muslim Journal Vol. 18, No. 30 May 14, 1993 By Sabir Kasib Muhammad The historic city of Charleston, S.C. speaks volumes to the seeker of knowledge about the “coming-to-America” of Africans made i...
