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Product Description: The African Heritage of American English provides a detailed compilation of Africanisms, identified linguistically, from a range of sources: folklore, place names, food culture, aesthetics, religion, loan words. Presenting a comprehensive accounting of African words retained from Bantu, Joseph Holloway and Winifred Vass examine the Bantu vocabulary content of the Gullah dialect of the Sea Islands; Black names in the United States; Africanisms of Bantu origin in Black English; Bantu place names in nine southern states; and Africanisms in contemporary American English...read more
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9780253328380 | Indiana Univ Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The African Heritage of American English provides a detailed compilation of Africanisms, identified linguistically, from a range of sources: folklore, place names, food culture, aesthetics, religion, loan words.
Paperback:
9780253211446 | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, August 1, 1997), cover price $14.95 | also contains Temptation & Twilight | About this edition: The African Heritage of American English provides a detailed compilation of Africanisms, identified linguistically, from a range of sources: folklore, place names, food culture, aesthetics, religion, loan words.
Product Description: This volume contains 123 documents which illustrate the early history of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and its struggle for human rights in the Congo from 1890-1918. The documents, many of which have never previously been published, are crucial to a full understanding of both the work of the Presbyterian Mission and its impact on the social, political, and religious life of the Congo...read more
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9789004102392 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 1997, cover price $230.00 | About this edition: This volume contains 123 documents which illustrate the early history of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and its struggle for human rights in the Congo from 1890-1918.
Paperback:
9780934934015 | Univ of California Center for Afro, June 1, 1980, cover price $7.95
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