There is also a very significant link between Bahamian and the Gullah language of South Carolina, as many Bahamians are descendants of slaves brought to the islands from the Gullah region after the American revolution.
While the opera was performed by an all-African American singing cast, the 1935 album featured mostly white opera singers attempting singing the Gullah-influenced words and music.
The Gullah describes a group of Black African Americans along the southeast coast of the United States from Jacksonville, North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida.
Some authors have written that in one recording he slipped into a Geechee or Gullah dialect, suggesting a connection in the Sea Islands.
The 1988 Jimmy Buffett song, "The Prince Of Tides" laments the urbanization of the island and loss of the Gullah.
Goodwine served as a consultant for the 2000 Mel Gibson film The Patriot, which featured scenes set on the South Carolina coast of the Gullah/Geechee Nation.
African Americans from the Gullah tradition in the South Carolina Lowcountry still weave artistic baskets using this native grass.
Joseph Opala, an American historian specializing in the history of the Gullah people of coastal South Carolina and Georgia.
She appeared in the film Daughters of the Dust (1992), directed by Julie Dash, which was about a Gullah family in 1902, at a time of transition on the Sea Islands.
She also wrote the script and served as the dialect coach for the award-winning film Gullah Tales in which the characters speak entirely in Gullah, and she served as a consultant to the BBC production The Story of English. Geraty translated the libretto of Porgy & Bess into Gullah and produced her version of the famous musical for audiences in Charleston.