Podcasts about port royal island

Amy and Brett are taking a road trip to one of the South’s best small towns. Beaufort, SC is located on Port Royal Island and has more activities than you could handle in a dozen vacations. We love the outdoor activities(except Amy….she hates fun), but that is not the draw for this particular show. There … Continue reading "103 – Hauntings of Hunting Island – Beaufort, SC" The post 103 – Hauntings of Hunting Island – Beaufort, SC appeared first on Travel Oddities Podcast.

Tune in to "Honoring de Ooman Souljah een de Gullah/Geechee Nation fa Decoration/Memorial Day!"   Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) who is the hostess of Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio.  She will share the history of the Suzie King Taylor and Harriet Tubman as they served at Port Royal Island, SC in the Gullah/Geechee Nation.  The legacy of women during the Civil War is often left out of the celebration of Memorial Day which is "Decoration Day" in the Gullah/Geechee Nation.  However, on this broadcast, the story will be completed. Tune een ta we sho-Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio! www.gullahgeecheenation.com 

In February 1779, A diversionary British force is in South Carolina, clashes with Continental forces on Port Royal Island, lead by our old friend Brig. General William Moultrie.

Susie King Taylor was born a slave, the first of nine children at Grest Farm (35 miles south of Savannah) in Liberty County, Georgia on Aug. 6, 1848. Her mother was a domestic servant for the Grest family. At the age of about five she had mastered the skills of reading and writing. Taylor soon became a skilled reader and writer. Those abilities to read and write proved invaluable to the Union Army as they began to form regiments of African American soldiers. Two days after Fort Pulaski was taken by Union forces, Taylor fled with family to St. Catherine Island, where they receive Union protection and a transfer to the Union-occupied St. Simons Island where she claimed her freedom. Since most blacks were illiterate, it was soon discovered that Taylor could read and write. Five days after her arrival, Commodore Louis Goldsborough offered Taylor books and supplies if she would establish a school on the island. She accepted the offer and became the first black teacher to openly instruct African Americans in Georgia. She would meet and eventually marry Sergeant Edward King while teaching at St. Simon Island, and the two would move to Port Royal Island off the coast of South Carolina. When Union officers raised the First South Carolina Volunteers of African American soldiers, Taylor signed on as a nurse, and soon started a school for black children and soldiers. Taylor would then serve for more than three years traveling with her husband's unit, the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops , as a doctor’s aid, washing, cooking, and burning or burying human limbs. In 1890, after a trip to care for her dying son in Louisiana, Taylor wrote her memoirs which she privately published them as a book in 1902 as Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd US Colored Troops. Taylor spent much of the remainder of her life in the North, serving as a teacher, domestic servant and cook.