What is the setting in Part I of the nonfiction book, Wandering in Strange Lands?

The book’s first part focuses on the geographical region known as the Lowcountry, which covers parts of Georgia and parts of South Carolina. The Lowcountry is home to many Gullah Geechee people. Gullah Geechee is a specific ethnic group of people descended from West African people who were forcibly brought to the United States as slaves. Jerkins observed that Gullah Geechee communities are continually threatened with dispersal due to the economic encroachment of corporations and wealthy white people. As a result of these encroachments, Gullah Geechee communities are shrinking and becoming more dispersed, and thus Gullah Geechee culture is becoming less stable and concentrated.