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"Dash's film is set among the Gullah people of Georgia's Sea Islands, used as an entry point in the 18th and 19th centuries for incoming slave ships. Isolated from the large plantations controlled by white slaveowners, the Gullah or Geechee people retained the customs and belief systems of their African forebears. In this turn-of-the-century drama, Viola Peazant, a missionary on the mainland, returns to her ancestral home to guide family members to a new life in the North. Vehemently opposed to this migration, is the formidable matriarch, Nana Peazant who believes that the family will be diluted of its memory and strength if it is so dispersed. Her ally in this attitude is Yellow Mary, a world-weary traveler, who has retreated to this island refuge from a hostile, intolerant world. Through the interviews of the photographer Snead, the legends and rituals of Ibo belief mesh with those of Islam and Christianity and surface in dreamlike sequences. Bridging the past with the present is the character of the Unborn Child who embodies both the expanse of collective memory and future promise. (Circulates)."@en
"In 1902, the Gullah Peazant family, descendants of slaves, live on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. The family is moving to the mainland and to the North. Their departure causes upheaval within the family. A discussion between Cheryl Chisolm and Julie Dash about the film concludes the program."
"Set on the Sea Islands off the South Carolina coast at the turn of the century, it follows a Gullah family (descendants of African captives), on the eve of their migration to the northern mainland. Their story is one of conflict, struggle, tradition and change."@en
"Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the dawn of the 20th century."@en
"Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the dawn of the 20th century."
"Tells the story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. The film brings to life the changing, values, conflicts and struggles of a family leaving home."
"Made in 1991."
"In 1902, the Gullah Peazant family, descendants of slaves, live on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. Most of the family is moving to the mainland and to the North. Their departure causes upheaval within the family."@en
"Tells the story of a large African-American family at the dawn of the 20th century as they prepare to move north from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia."
"Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North at the dawn of the 20th century."@en
"A large African-American family prepares to move north at the dawn of the 20th century."@en
"This drama portrays the conflict and struggle between African tradition and changing values in the early 1900s as a family of Sea Island Gullahs prepares to migrate to the promise of mainland USA and Canada. It focuses on the Peazant family women, carriers of ancient African traditions and beliefs."
"A simple story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. The film brings to life the changing values, conflicts and struggles of a family leaving home."@en
"Tells the story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North at the dawn of the twentieth century. An epic drama which explores the unique culture of the the Gullah people, descendants of slaves who lived in relative isolation on the Sea Islands off the Georgia coast."
"At the turn of the century the Peazant family, a multigenerational community threatened with break-up, gathers for a reunion on an island off the coast of South Carolina, historically a place of entry for the European slave ships and a haven for self-emancipated Africans and indigeneous peoples. Structured around the twin narratives of Nana, born into slavery, and that of the Unborn Child, this is a rites-of-passage story invoking Islam, Christianity and West African spiritual customs. It is not narrative-driven in the Western mode but is balletic, operatic, non-linear and based on the African oral tradition of the Griot (story-teller) drawing on the Gullah dialect. Dash was also inspired by the literature of African-American women writers."@en
"In 1902, the Gullah Peazant family, descendants of slaves, live on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. The family is moving to the mainland and to the North. Their departure causes upheaval within the family."
"In 1902, the Gullah Peazant family, descendants of slaves, live on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. The family is moving to the mainland and to the North. Their departure causes upheaval within the family."@en
"A large African-American family prepares to move north at the dawn of the 20th century, bringing to life the changing values, conflicts and struggles they face. The family drama reveals the unique culture of the Gullah people, descendants of slaves who lived in relative isolation on the Sea Islands off the Georgia Coast."@en
"Tells the story of a large extended Gullah family coming to the decision to move from their home in the Sea Islands to a northern city."@en
"The Peazant family, who are descendants of slaves, live in the Gullah community off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. In 1902, the family's decision to move to the mainland causes upheaval within the family."