"A STRONG BARBARIC ACCENT": AMERICA'S DUTCH-SPEAKING BLACK COMMUNITY FROM SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEW NETHERLAND TO NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
Although it is estimated that as late as the mid-eighteenth century 16–20% of the slaves in New York and New Jersey spoke Dutch, very little research has been done on America's Dutch-speaking black community. Despite the paucity of sources, this article provides an overview of the importance of the Dutch language for the black community from the seventeenth-century colony of New Netherland to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also raises the question of whether Dutch-speaking blacks, in addition to whites, may have played a role in the transmission of Dutch linguistic elements int... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
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Duke University Press
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Schlagwörter: | Articles |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Link(s) : | http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/90/2/131 |
Although it is estimated that as late as the mid-eighteenth century 16–20% of the slaves in New York and New Jersey spoke Dutch, very little research has been done on America's Dutch-speaking black community. Despite the paucity of sources, this article provides an overview of the importance of the Dutch language for the black community from the seventeenth-century colony of New Netherland to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also raises the question of whether Dutch-speaking blacks, in addition to whites, may have played a role in the transmission of Dutch linguistic elements into American English.