CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – Members of the Charleston Reparations Task Force, local Black Lives Matter, and Gullah Geechee community members are demanding the transfer of over 7,000 acres of former plantation land in the area.
Descendants are calling for land from three major Lowcountry plantations: Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens, Magnolia Plantations and Gardens, and Middleton Place.
They hope to claim the land to help establish the Gullah Geechee Reparations Reservation, land to be held in permanent stewardship by Gullah Geechee people…