I almost forgot about the blog this week, but when I was on Facebook, I was linked to this by the National Geographic page. It's a short video about an African-American community that, because their ancestors were brought to islands off the southeast cost of the country and remained isolated, ended up retaining a lot of their culture to this day.

I remember these people being mentioned in my American history class. Even though they are American, this still relates to African history because it derives from the slave trade. The truth is that the slaves brought to the Americas managed to retain quite a bit of their culture. This particular group was able to hold on to more than usual. So now, recording and preserving that culture is being viewed as important.