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Book three, part one of Roll, Jordan, Roll has a chapter that is titled The Language of Class and Nation. One quote by Genovese that caught my attention was describing the urban ghetto of present times. "Even today in the black urban ghettos verbal ability contributes at least as much as physical strentgh to individual prestige." Speech or the ability to make one's point is apart of many languages throughout the United States and the world. The slaves of eighteenth century America did set the pace for a certain verbal style of the English language, but Genovese's historical argument my be to vague in nature. Communication was key to slave survival but it is also important to realize in twenty-first century America that the pace of communication is always changing as well.
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