Marquetta Goodwine

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Marquetta Goodwine (also known as Queen Quet or Marquetta L. Goodwine), a native of St. Helena Island, South Carolina, is an author and a leader of the Gullah/Geechee people of the Southeastern United States.

Goodwine is a co-founder of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, which works to preserve the land and culture of the Gullah/Geechee, who continue to be forced out of their island and coastal homes due to development and economic pressures. In 1999 she became the first Gullah to speak before the United Nations, giving testimony at an April 1 hearing of the Commission on Human Rights in Switzerland.[1]

Goodwine also served as a consultant for the 2000 Mel Gibson film The Patriot, which featured scenes set in the Gullah region of South Carolina.

[edit] Books by Marquetta Goodwine

Goodwine, Marquetta L. (1997). Gawd dun smile pun we: Beaufort Isles. Gullah/Geechee the Survival of Africa's Seed in the Winds of the Diaspora series, v. 2. Brooklyn, New York: Kinship Publications.
Goodwine, Marquetta L. (1999). Frum wi soul tuh de soil: The Cash Crops of the Sea Islands. Gullah/Geechee Africa's Seed in the Winds of the Diaspora series, v. 3. Brooklyn, New York: Kinship Publications.
Goodwine, Marquetta L., and & the Clarity Press Gullah Project, eds (1998). The Legacy of Ibo Landing: Gullah Roots of African American Culture. Atlanta, Georgia: Clarity Press.
Goodwine, Marquetta L., and Ronald Goodwine (1994). Brother and Sister... Heart to Heart (1994). Brooklyn, New York: Extended Kinship Appeal, Inc.
Goodwine, Ronald "Kuumba," and Marquetta L. "Queen Quet" Goodwine (2004). T'inkin' 'bout Famlee: A Geechee Down Novella. St. Helena, South Carolina: Kinship Publications.