Table of contents
Prefaceix
Introduction1
1. Texts23
2. Commentary
Speaking of Slavery: The Historical Value of the Recordings with Former Slaves123
Slave Narratives, Slave Culture, and the Slave Experience133
Songs, Sermons, and Life Stories: The Legacy of the Ex-Slave Narratives155
The Linguistic Value of the Ex-Slave Recordings173
Representativeness and Reliability of the Ex-Slave Materials, With Special Reference to Wallace
Quarterman’s Recording and Transcript191
Is Gullah Decreolizing? A Comparison of a Speech Sample of the 1930s with a Sample of the 1980s213
The Atlantic Creoles and the Language of the Ex-Slave Recordings231
Liberian Settler English and the Ex-Slave Recordings: A Comprative Study249
There’s No Tense Like the Present: Verbal — S Inflection in Early Black English275
Appendix327
Bibliography331
List of Contributors351
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