Sapelo Island

…antebellum period, almost all of Sapelo Island became the domain of Thomas Spalding, a prominent Georgia slaveholder, planter, and legislator. In the last half of the 19th century, Jekyll Island was made an exclusive winter playground for members of the Jekyll Island Club; the Carnegie family also secured most of…

…Johns islands (South Carolina) and Sapelo Island (Georgia). During the 20th and 21st centuries groups of Gullahs have gone on “heritage tours” to Sierra Leone, reestablishing long-broken cultural ties.