Reviving a Crop and an African-American Culture, Stalk by Stalk On the Georgia coast, Maurice Bailey is making sugar cane syrup as a way to […]
11.24.2020
Story in The Bitter Southerner that covers Sapelo Island Sugarcane Project
Story by SHANE MITCHELL | Photographs by RINNE ALLEN (excerpt from bottom of story) The next morning, before leaving on the ferry, Maurice Bailey handed […]
10.21.2020
Article in Georgia Farmers and Consumer Market Bulletin about Sapelo Sugarcane Project
Sugarcane is the foundation of efforts to preserve, revitalize Geechee culture on Sapelo Island By Amy Carter amy.carter@agr.georgia.gov Sapelo Island was the epicenter of early […]
09.29.2020
Scalawag article by Maurice Bailey and Nik Heynen: Sweet (and sticky) redemption
Gullah/Geechee of Sapelo Island reclaim sugarcane to fight cultural erasure There is no U.S. agricultural history without the expertise and labor of African people who […]
06.11.2020
State legislature Working to Permit Sale of Heritage Preserve Lands to Private Entities
by Dean Hardy, Maurice Bailey, and Nik Heynen in the Darien News Georgia’s heritage preserves are spread across the state. Many residents consider them an […]
05.25.2020
“A plantation can be a commons”: Re-Earthing Sapelo Island through Abolition Ecology
by Nik Heynen in Antipode This paper is based on the 2018 Neil Smith Lecture presented at the University of St Andrews. It considers the […]