edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, and Patricia Cukor-Avila
Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1991
x, 352 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
Creole language library,
v. 8
0920-9026 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-349)
Speaking of slavery: the historical value of the recordings with slaves / Paul D. Escott -- Slave narratives, slave culture, and the slave experience / Joe Graham -- Song, sermons, and life stories: the legacy of the ex-slave narratives / Jeutonne P. Brewer -- The linguistic value of the ex-slave recordings / Michael Montgomery -- Representativeness and reliability of the ex-slave materials, with special reference to Wallace Quarterman's recording and transcript / John R. Rickford -- Is Gullah decreolizing? a comparison of a speech sample of the 1930s with a sample of the 1980s / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- The Atlantic Creoles and the language of the ex-slave recordings / John Holm -- Liberian settler English and the ex-slave recordings: a comparative study / John Victor Singler -- There's no tense like the present: verbal -S inflection in early black English / Shana Poplack, Sali Tagliamonte