Season 1 · Episode 03
100 min · 1700s–today
The Ring Turn Ever
Counterclockwise. Never crossing feet. A Kongo cosmogram in Georgia soil.
Logline
The counterclockwise Kongo dance that outlived slavery and became American gospel's grandmother.
What the episode covers
- The Kongo cosmogram (Dikenga) travels the Middle Passage, encoded in the shout.
- McIntosh County, Georgia — the last community to keep the shout unbroken from slavery through today.
- How the ring shout birthed American gospel, birthed the spiritual, birthed the sermon.
Production notes
Community-attributed traditional music only, no post-1928 material. All primary sources public domain (Library of Congress, National Archives, community archives) or community-controlled oral history. Screenplay filed with U.S. Copyright Office as part of the Gullah Geechee Biz Season 1 deposit.
Attribution
Written & Directed by Darryl Elliott Brown
Produced by Darryl Elliott Brown
A Gullah Geechee Biz Production
© 2026 Darryl Elliott Brown
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