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To: Ohioan

And that love in good families went both ways. These women NURSED THE CHILDREN AND TAUGHT THEM SPEECH. African accents influenced the vowel sounds of the southern Americans.

And as we well know, the other kind of love went both ways too, with true love affairs developing between people kept apart by skin color and caste. It is foolish to think every mixed child came from rape or forced sex.


123 posted on 05/12/2018 12:00:44 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle
African accents influenced the vowel sounds of the southern Americans.

I realize that this is being commonly taught but it's actually incorrect. The various southern accents trace very clearly back to the various British Isles, Scotland and Ireland. The vowel sounds of black Americans were influenced by British, Scottish and Irish-descended southerners.

126 posted on 05/12/2018 12:13:47 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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