Samaná Americans
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The Samaná Americans (Spanish: Americanos de Samaná) are a minority cultural sub-group of African American descendants who inhabit the Samaná Province in the eastern region of Dominican Republic.[1]
History
Most of the Samaná Americans are descendants of
Cultural distinctiveness
Crucially, they maintain many elements of 19th-century African American culture, such as
Present day
While it is difficult to estimate the number of Samaná Americans today due to exogamy and emigration from the peninsula, the number of Samaná English speakers was once estimated to be around 8,000.[4] Such numbers have decreased considerably as the linguists doing research in the community relate; a difficulty in finding SE speakers even among the elderly.[5] No monolingual English speakers remain; all Samaná Americans who speak English also speak Spanish. As a result of the influence of mainstream Dominican culture (including compulsory Spanish-language education), many markers of their culture appear to be in decline.[6]
See also
- American Colonization Society
- American fugitives in Cuba
- Americo-Liberian people
- Colonization societies
- Confederados
- Haitian emigration
- Mascogos
- Mayorasgo de Koka
- Sierra Leone Creole people
- African-American diaspora
- Afro-Dominicans
References
- ^ The Samaná Americans: African Americans in the Dominican Republic
- ^ THE SAMANA AMERICANS
- ^ Hidalgo, Dennis R. (2001). From North America to Hispaniola: First Free Black Emigration and Settlements in Hispaniola. Mt. Pleasant, MI: Ph.D. dissertation, Central Michigan University. pp. 1–28.
- ^ Ethnologue report for English; Samaná English is described under the heading "Dominican Republic"
- Davis, Martha Ellen (2007). "La historia de los inmigrantes afro-americanos y sus iglesias en Samaná según el reverendo Nehemiah Willmore" (PDF). Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación. 159: 237–245. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2015-12-25. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
- ^ Soraya Aracena, Los inmigrantes norteamericanos de Samaná. (Santo Domingo: Helvetas Asociación Suiza para la Cooperación Internacional, 2000)