LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Gullah was created by African slaves who often spoke different languages.
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Gullah was created by the Spanish who captured Africans and sold them into slavery.
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Gullah was created by colonists as a way to speak to African slaves.
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Gullah was created by Native Americans as a way to speak to colonists.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gullah developed in rice fields during the 18th century as a result of contact between colonial varieties of English and the languages of African slaves. These Africans and their descendants created the new language in response to their own linguistic diversity.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gullah – pronounced GULL-uh – is the Creole language developed by enslaved Africans living along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina. It is also the name of the people who speak this language, as well as the name of their culture and traditions.
Detailed explanation-3: -This hybrid language served as a means of communication between British slave traders and local African traders, but it also served as a lingua franca, or common language, among Africans of different tribes.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Gullah people have a language that has been misunderstood for many decades. Outsiders have perceived the language as slave vernacular, bad English, Ebonics or as having poor grammar. However, their words and intonations are a combination of English and West African languages.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Gullah Geechee people are the descendants of West and Central Africans who were enslaved and bought to the lower Atlantic states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia to work on the coastal rice, Sea Island cotton and indigo plantations.