The Historian Behind Slavery Apologists Like Kanye West

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Exlurkernegro · May 4, 2018

Speaking of slavery if Africans sold slaves to Europeans how did they break the language barrier? :patrice:

xoxodede · May 4, 2018

Exlurkernegro said:
Speaking of slavery if Africans sold slaves to Europeans how did they break the language barrier?

African interpreters.

The rulers of these societies usually appointed caboceers (traders) to deal with European slave traders. Many, such as the caboceer from the Fante people, John Currantee, or the leader from the Efik people Ephraim Robin John (known to the European traders as King George) were well-known as canny and ruthless dealers. They were able to communicate in a number of European and African languages. The African slave traders were skilled in using to their advantage the rivalries between the French, the English and the Dutch to get the best prices for their slaves. Often they demanded (and received) ‘gifts’ or ‘custom fees’, known in some quarters as ‘dashee’, from the Europeans. African slave traders | Slave traders | Traders, Merchants and Planters | The People Involved | Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery | PortCities Bristol

In addition, bi-racial children born on the coast to African women and European sailors or traders were often fluent in both languages and were employed as interpreters and traders. At the points of African embarkation on slave ships, and then in the Americas, African and European people worked as interpreters, using a mix of African and European languages in order to convey instructio

The first generations of Africans and Europeans coming in contact, like all people of different language groups, spoke their own language and developed a pidgin, language. Pidgins included words and meaning from both languages that allowed them to communicate. Pidgin has no native speakers.