They seemed to speak a worse patois than the Sea Islanders, and words of Spanish, in the mouths of some of them, testified to their being genuine sons of the soil, with a lineage running back in a straight line to the days of the Spanish occupation.
Reid discusses the linguistic characteristics of local African Americans, indicating their cultural heritage and connection to the region's history.
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