It is a mixture of Guinea and everything else you please.

At the time of which I am now writing, there were slaves there who had been brought from the coast of Africa.

They never used the "s" in indication of the possessive case.

"Cap'n Ant'ney Tom," "Lloyd Bill," "Aunt Rose Harry," means "Captain Anthony's Tom," "Lloyd's Bill," &c.

_"Oo you dem long to ?"_ means, "Whom do you belong to ?" _"Oo dem got any peachy ?"_ means, "Have you got any peaches ?" I could scarcely understand them when I first went among them, so broken was their speech; and I am persuaded that I could not have been dropped anywhere on the globe, where I could reap less, in the way of knowledge, from my immediate associates, than on this plantation.