Letts 2018 Verona Week to View, Black, English, 6.625 x 3.25 (C35SUBK-2018)

the cruel process that brought Africa and America into collision has enriched our language with everyday turns a phrase like nitty gritty and you can hear the African past in Martha's English when she uses words like voodoo banana banjo or the African word meaning to carry tote on my head cleaning in total ding lonnie head lay down a man out of total money shoulder the house servants who mixed with their white masters spoke something closer to standard english but they and their children still retained the basic traits of plantation creole if a slave mother wants her child to move upward she'll want him to use something like the Masters English to stay away from the African version of English him to go tended to be replaced by him be go and it seemed to have happened sometime after about 1830 that the ing ending became obligatory so instead of I be ketchup K might be catchin I said of h