[Ads-l] Antedating of "Negro English"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Negro English (OED, s.v. Negro, C.3, 1808)

1800 Charlotte Smith The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer 2: 140 (Google Books)

I heard three or four hoarse voices salute my host in a language of which I understood nothing but two or three words, and those hostile, borrowed from the negro English of the colonies.

Fred Shapiro

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