I would also like to add that African Americans are not a homogeneous people. In addition to regional differences among African Americans, there are many different ethnicities {including African Americans with known Caribbean ancestry; African Americans with known continental African ancestry; African Americans with known European ancestry; African Americans with Native American ancestry; and African Americans with known Asian and Pacific Islander ancestry. For example, my mother was born in this country, but her mother & father, and most of her siblings were born in Barbados. My father was adopted {or raised in a foster home in Michigan from an early age} so I don't know his ancestry. Consequently, I have no known Southern relatives {well, anyway I didn't until my sister and other relatives moved "down South".

One sub-set of African Americans are the Gullah {or Geechee} people of South Carolina and the Sea Isles of Georgia. For those who don't know that culture {like me} the Gullah accent sounds very much like an African or a West Indian accent.

If interested, you can click on this website for
Examples of Gullah speech