Is this a good introduction on social linguistics? On the AAVE dialect? Please correct grammar or any other errors:) African American Vernacular English is also being called Black English or Ebonics. It is a group of dialects of English that developed among African American communities in the United states. It is the variety of English that is often spoken in the urban landscape by most working and middle class African Americans. However with that being said the dialect can still be spoken by “white people”. The cadences, phrases and expressions birth within African American culture demonstrate a unique approach to the English Language with a special history veiw of study. Since the language is very unique they are very influential and they are the source of many slang expressions and idioms that are used in general American English and also international English. However many English speaker have a persistent belief that it is speakers that speaks bad english or ”broken english” and that they are constantly making mistakes when they are speaking. Moreover, to make it even more interesting many English speakers borrow and use parts of AAVE in their daily life, without being aware of it.

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.