The slave letters are included in this, separate subcorpus, because they cannot be categorised as fitting into one of the other subcorpora. These letters have either been written by slaves - with possibly a few slaves having learnt how to write, who have written down letters dictated to them – or missionaries writing the letters dictated to them by some of the slaves. It is clear that the variety of Negerhollands used in the letters aims at an acrolectal variety of Negerhollands or sometimes even Dutch. This will be due at least partially to the fact that it is the missionaries who taught the slaves how to write and they will have aimed for a more Dutch-like standard.
Description : The slave letters are included in this, separate subcorpus, because they cannot be categorised as fitting into one of the other subcorpora. These letters have either been written by slaves - with possibly a few slaves having learnt how to write, who have written down letters dictated to them – or missionaries writing the letters dictated to them by some of the slaves. It is clear that the variety of Negerhollands used in the letters aims at an acrolectal variety of Negerhollands or sometimes even Dutch. This will be due at least partially to the fact that it is the missionaries who taught the slaves how to write and they will have aimed for a more Dutch-like standard.