never spoken correctly or said in proper form.
             In Georgia and other southern states there were blacks who were not brought from Africa and quite a few knew how to speak standard English. Around 1858 over 400 slave from Africa were brought straight to Georgia and none of them knew a word of English.(Smitherman) Being that these two groups merged together they adapted each others language whether it was correct or incorrect
             On the east coast of America, the Blacks spoke a different degree of Ebonics which was discovered in newspaper articles.(Lewis p.2)
             In 1744 The New York Evening Post read: "Ran away...a new Negro Fellow named Prince, he can't scarce speak a Word of English"
             1n 1760 an ad in the North Carolina Gazette read: "Ran away from the Subscriber,..., African Born..., speaks bad English." In 1734, the Philadelphia American Weekly Mercury read: Run away...;he's Pennsylvania Born and speaks good English,"
             These articles show where each person came from and what there English was like. It is obvious that masters kept tabs on how well their slave could
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