Samaná English

Samaná English (SE and SAX) is a variety of the English language spoken by descendants of Black immigrants from the United States who have lived in the Samaná Peninsula, which belongs today to the Dominican Republic. Members of the enclave are known as the Samaná Americans.

The language is a relative of the Antebellum Black Vernacular English, with variations unique to the enclave's history in the area. In the 1950 Dominican Republic census, 0.57% of the population (about 12,200 people) said that their mother tongue was English.

The majority of speakers trace their lineage to immigrants that arrived to the Peninsula in 1824 and 1825. The island of Hispaniola was all administered by Haiti, and its president was Jean-Pierre Boyer. The immigrants responded to an invitation for settlement that Jonathas Granville delivered in person to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston and New York City. Abolitionists like Richard Allen, Samuel Cornish, Benjamin Lundy and Loring D. Dewey joined the campaign, which was coined the Haitian emigration.

The response was unprecedented, as thousands of African Americans boarded ships in eastern cities and migrated to Haiti. The bulk of the immigrants arrived during the fall of 1824 and the spring of 1825. More continued moving back and forth in the coming years, but at a slower rate.

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