Editor’s note: Gullah people are descendants of enslaved Africans brought to plantations along the lower Atlantic Coast who have long shaped the cultural and spiritual tides of South Carolina. This is part of Gullah Keepers , an occasional series from The Post and Courier that highlights Gullah communities and those who advocate, preserve and lead in an ever-changing environment.

CHARLESTON — Michael Allen has found there's a certain superpower that comes with being a life-long historian: He sees fragments of the past everywhere he goes.

As he sets up his vendor stand in Charleston's historic City Market , Allen can picture the Gullah basket weavers and vegetable sellers who occupied the blocks-long space through the 19th century. When he gets a glimpse of Charleston Harbor, he

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