INTERVENTION TO THE UNITED NATIONS SUB-COMMISSION
ON THE PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION AND PROTECTION OF MINORITIES
50th Session
Barrister Majid Tramboo
The Intervention to the Sub-Commission concerned the situation of the
Gullah people of the southeastern United States, a distinct ethnic group
numbering some 500,000 persons speaking the Creole language, Gullah, which
has inhabited the Lowland coastal regions of the U.S. since the early capture
and enslavement of Africans on the North American continent. The
intervention makes special note of the efforts of the Gullah-Geechee Sea
Island Coalition, under the direction of Marquetta L. Goodwine, to protect
the culture from the processes of forced assimilation and outside development
presently leading to the dispersal and disappearance (ethnocide) of this
unique American culture.
Text of Mr. Tramboo's intervention will be posted shortly.