Descendants of slaves who have inhabited Georgia’s Sapelo Island for hundreds of years on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta claiming that the state of Georgia, McIntosh County and the Sapelo Island Heritage Authority are collectively attempting to force them to abandon their homes and land.
The suit alleges that 57 plaintiffs, all members of what their attorney described as “the last intact Gullah-Geechee community in the country,” are facing racial discrimination that is intended to destroy their community. Sapelo Island is a 16,500-acre barrier island in McIntosh County about 70 miles south of Savannah. Many of its residents are members of what is considered to the largest remaining Gullah-Geechee community in the nation. The Gullah Geechee are descendants of West Africans brought to the South as slaves centuries ago.
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