African Interpreters in the Atlantic Slave Trade  

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Fayer, Joan M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 45 no. 3 (Mar. 2003), page 281-295.
Fulltext: Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 281-295.pdf (1.75MB)

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African linguists, both free and slave, had important functions in the Atlantic slave trade and on Caribbean plantations. They facilitated ex- ploration and trading. On the slave ships they communicated orders and in- formation and helped to suppress slave insurrections. On plantations they served as teachers for the newly arrived slaves. The use of African interpreters provides evidence that African languages were used in these contact situations not only before the genesis of a pidgin language, but also during and after the development of a pidgin.

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