The claim has frequently been made by scholars that Africans in the Spanish Caribbean,
deprived of the opportunity for learning the prevailing dialects of Spanish, developed a …

Spanish was spoken in large regions of Latin America characterized by significant African
populations, and that the linguistic characteristics of this creole dialect were largely …

The present study represents a first attempt at reassessing the status of Afro-Dominican
language. It will be proposed that the presence of African bozales (slaves born in Africa and …

The goal of this chapter is to present a comparative survey of research paradigms involving
Creoles lexified from Spanish, as well as Afro-Hispanic dialects which promise to shed light …

By the first few decades of the 19th century, anti-slavery movements in Europe were strong,
and slaving ships en route to the Americas were routinely intercepted and confiscated. The …

The nature of Afro-Hispanic language as depicted in Caribbean literature is the subject of
considerable controversy. In addition to the fact that nearly all texts were literary imitations …

OJ L. Dillard, one of the experts in Black English in the USA, suggested in 1975 that it could
be possible to encounter a variety of Black Spanish in Cuba:“Cabrera (all re-ferences) and …

The African diaspora in Spanish America involved at least eight million individuals (Andrews
2004; Eltis et al. 1999; Rout 1976), and spanned more than four centuries. Despite the …

This collection of papers by major scholars of creole and Afro-American linguistics is drawn
from research first presented at an International Round Table of Africanisms in Afro …

The African influence on Latin American Spanish is undisputed, and yet the field of Afro-
Hispanic linguistics is hampered by the lack of widespread Hispanic creole dialects, or even …