language retentions

Other research revealed beyond Hollaways focus on names was how Africans begin to speak English if they all ready didn't know it when they came here. Most Africans new English or a little English that was coming from west Indies or central Africa, the African along the coast was speaking Creole or pidgin. Most of the Africans had to learn English and fast because they were house servants; they picked up English faster because they interacted with the Europeans more then the field slaves.

Hollaways talks about how younger slaves learned how to speak and learn English before the adult slaves. The Africans that was born here had little trouble learning English than the ones that was not. The adult slaves would either speak no English or bad English, unlike their children. There were still generations of interactions with African speech patterns produced with the white Southern accent.