CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Momentum is building in Charleston around a major push for reparations, to effectively transfer more than 7,000 acres of land into permanent Gullah Geechee stewardship, and the clock is now ticking for some of the Lowcountry’s most well-known plantations to respond after they were given 40 days to do so.
More than 135 businesses, organizations and community members are backing a demand that could reshape thousands of acres of Lowcountry land, and they say action is needed now more than ever to protect the future of Gullah Geechee culture.
“Control of our destiny and self-determination. That’s what we asking for and that’s what we demanding,” Marcus McDonald, organizer with the Charleston Reparations Task Force and a Boone Hall descendant, said…