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…showed last 75 words of 680 total…through the use of all these various genres. African Americans learned language in a unique way because they learned under distress that no other language has been learned under. This has given their work a sort of bilingual style. The audience is therefore able to get a real sense of reality, place, time and tone from each piece of literature. All together, this is what formed the African American oral tradition according to Herbert Martin.