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During the early years of the settlement of the American continent, a highly distinctive form of English,【小题1】(speak)by the black population, was beginning to. develop in the islands of the West Indies and the southern part of the mainland. The beginning of the seventeenth century saw the emergence of the slave trade. Ships. from Europe traveled to the West African coast,【小题2】 they exchanged cheap goods for black slaves. The slaves were shipped in terrible conditions to the Caribbean islands and the American coast, where they were in turn exchanged for such products【小题3】 sugar and molasses. The ships then returned to England, completing an “Atlantic triangle” of journeys, and the process【小题4】(begin)again. Britain and the. United States had outlawed the slave trade by 1865, but by that time, nearly 200 years of trading【小题5】(take)place. By the middle of the nineteenth century, there were over four million black slaves in America.
The policy of the slave-traders was to bring people of different language backgrounds together in the ships, to make【小题6】 difficult for groups to plan rebellion. The result was the growth of several pidgin(混杂)forms of communication, and in particular a pidgin between the slaves and the sailors, many of【小题7】 spoke English. Once they arrived in the Caribbean, this pidgin English continued to act as【小题8】 major means of communication between the black population and their new owners, and among the blacks themselves. Then, when children came to be born, the pidgin became their mother tongue, thus【小题9】(produce)the first black Creole(克里奥尔语)speech in the region. This Creole English rapidly came【小题10】(use)throughout the cotton plantations, and in the coastal towns and islands.
