[lit-ideas] Re: Son of the Soil (The Forgotten Kemble Butler)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:49:21 EDT
Hard to believe, but I must (believe J. Evans) that the words of this Kemble
woman below come from the lips of an abolitionist. But then it's Geary who
knows everything about Slavery Studies.
Cheers,
JL
Fanny Kemble wrote:
"The children of the slave owners, brought among
the slaves acquire thei Negro mode of
talking -- slavish speech surely it is.
"This ignoble trick of
pronunciation"
"I SHALL NOT ALLOW THIS TO BECOME
A HABIT [with my own]. This is the way
[the local whites] acquire the
thick and inelegant pronunciation which distinguishes
their utterances and I have no
desire that my [own] should adorn [their] mother tongue
with either PECULIARITY."
J. L. Speranza, Esq.
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