books.google.com - If ever there was a polyglot place on the globe (other than the Tower of Babel), America between 1750 and 1850 was it. Here three continents—North America, Africa, and Europe—met and spoke not as one, but in Amerindian and African languages, in German and English, Spanish, French, and Dutch. How...http://books.google.com/books/about/American_Babel.html?id=CBBlYUeSIw0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAmerican Babel
