“It's (Sapelo Island) about 12 miles, give or take 12 miles long, about four and a half miles wide. Population in Hog Hammock, it is under 70. It's slowly dwindling down.

But the island was first inhabited by a Native Americans, the Guale Indians. And then you know what happened after that?

First the Spanish came, ran the Indians off, Indians came back, ran the Spanish off, then the British came, ran the Indians off, then the Spanish came back, ran the British off.

So they went back and forth for a good while. Then they overcome the Native Americans and that's when they started colonizing the island, turning into a plantation, brought in slaves.

I am seventh generation Sapelonian and I grew up with the Gullah dialect intact until I started going to school. Once I started going to school, you're not speaking proper English. So they spent most of their time taking it away from me now just to try to teach it back to us again.”