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Black English Vernacular (BEV), also known as Black English, seventeenth century when European traded slaves from Africa to American. African Americans were loaded on the ship and most of them were enable to talk to other people because they did not speak in the same languages, which prevented them from planning any rebellion on the ship. In the result of this, pidgin was developed. Pidgin was used when African Americans wanted to communicate with the landowner. Pidgin was hard for people to understand because it was not developed enough. Overtime, Pidgin developed into Creole. After the civil rights, African Americans made Creole clear enough for Americans to understand, which became known as the Black English Vernacular. The grammar was used incorrectly when Black English was spoken by the African Americans.

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