Editing Gullah language (section)

==Storytelling==
The Gullah people have a rich storytelling tradition that is strongly influenced by African oral traditions but also by their historical experience in America. Their stories include animal [[trickster]] tales about the antics of [[Br'er Rabbit|"Brer Rabbit"]], [[Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear|"Brer Fox" and "Brer Bear"]], [[Big Bad Wolf (Disney)|"Brer Wolf"]], etc.; human trickster tales about clever and self-assertive slaves; and morality tales designed to impart moral teaching to children.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

Several white American writers collected Gullah stories in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. The best collections were made by [[Charles Colcock Jones Jr.]] from Georgia and Albert Henry Stoddard from South Carolina. Jones, a Confederate officer during the Civil War, and Stoddard were both whites of the [[planter class]] who grew up speaking Gullah with the slaves (and later freedmen) on their families' plantations. Another collection was made by [[Abigail Christensen]], a Northern woman whose parents came to the Low Country after the Civil War to assist the newly-freed slaves. [[Ambrose E. Gonzales]], another writer of South Carolina planter-class background, also wrote original stories in 19th-century Gullah, based on Gullah literary forms; his works are well remembered in South Carolina today.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

The linguistic accuracy of those writings has been questioned because of the authors' social backgrounds. Nonetheless, those works provide the best available information on Gullah, as it was spoken in its more conservative form in the 19th century.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}