All of these people you see were landing on African soil for the first time. It happened to be in Sierra Leone; a small country in West Africa with strong links to the Gullah Geechees. December 28th, 2019 about 50-odd African Americans visited.
Echoes From The Atlantic Graveyard
Journey through timeless tales connecting continents, celebrating resilience, and honoring the rich legacy of the Diaspora.
Echoes gathers scenes, faces, and field-notes from journeys between Sierra Leone and the Gullah Geechee corridor—moments of arrival, remembrance, and return. Every card is a small archive: an image, a line, a pulse of memory.
They are descendants of Africans who were taken from West Africa and other parts for their rice-growing skills to work on plantations for the new colonists in the North American Colonies. Some of them were visiting Africa for the very first time.