Jeanne Ashe Looks Back to Daufuskie Island

In the late 1970s, photojournalist Jeanne Moutoussamy Ashe, documented the lives of the Gullah culture.

By Steve Goss

Atlanta, GA – In the late 1970s, photojournalist Jeanne Moutoussamy Ashe, wife of the late tennis champion Arthur Ashe, visited Daufuskie Island off the South Carolina coast to document the lives of the Gullah culture a largely isolated community of descendants of African slaves. Her photographs first published in 1982, are now on view at the Fernbank Museum, sponsored by Merrill Lynch.

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