Turner's Work on the Dialect
of the People of the Gullah Islands

by Lorenzo Dow Turner, Jr.

Lorenzo Dow Turner was a linguist/Africanist who devoted the major portion of his life to the research and documentation of the survivals and retentions of West African languages and culture in the descendants of African ex-slaves of the Western Hemisphere. He earned his Ph.D. degree in English Literature from the University of Chicago. (read whole article)

Lorenzo Dow Turner: Linguist, Literary, and Pan-African Scholar

by Margaret Wade-Lewis

Lorenzo Dow Turner was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina on August 21, 1890. He was a member of the fourth generation of a high achieving, free Black family that dates its origins to 1799, to Sally Rooks, a Scotch-Irish woman, and to Jacob Brady, a black man of exceeding height and large stature.1 (read whole article)