LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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The 1960s protest movements
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The attempts of African slaves to communicate with each other
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Slave owners teaching slaves Elizabethan English
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Slaves’ attempts to keep their conversations secret
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Detailed explanation-1: -African American English (AAE) originated from contact between Africans and Whites during slavery. The trajectory of slavery in the United States was different from that in the Caribbean, but in areas where population ratios and time frames were most like those in the Caribbean, a creole language, Gullah, emerged.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ebonics, also called African American Vernacular English (AAVE), formerly Black English Vernacular (BEV), dialect of American English spoken by a large proportion of African Americans.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the English colonies Africans spoke an English-based Atlantic Creole, generally called plantation creole. Low Country Africans spoke an English-based creole that came to be called Gullah. Gullah is a language closely related to Krio a creole spoken in Sierra Leone.
Detailed explanation-4: -Some scholars contend that AAVE developed out of the contact between speakers of West African languages and speakers of vernacular English varieties. According to such a view, West Africans learnt English on plantations in the southern Coastal States (Georgia, South Carolina, etc.)