Saint-dominguois

The first fluent speakers of such an early Saint-Dominguois/Haitian Creole could not have been those that Lefebvre considers the principal agents of creole genesis, namely, the African-bom adults who were being transported en masse to ...

The colonial whites had, as a result, little loyalty towards the territory, recognising a common interest as planters or merchants but not as Saint-Dominguois.

The Saint-Dominguois, many of whom were bilingual in French and Creole, would have shifted to French. The conditions for the emergence of a French-based Creole might have existed in the early stages of the Louisiana colony, at least in ...