Dunbar wrote the dialect because he loved the dialect, because that was the people, that was us. That was our vernacular, this informal conversation, the way we spoke to each other. And it was obviously something that he had heard, given the fact that the majority of people, even in the urban centers of the north were from the South. Given the fact that both of his parents had been enslaved. So it was a dialect, it was vernacular that he was comfortable with. And it represented for him the soul of African American people. So I think that he represented African Americans in this vernacular because that's one aspect of the black community which he saw. But it's also important to recognize that that's not all Dunbar wrote. That's what whites focused on. And that's what William Dean Howells, who was the white man who catapulted him to fame, wanted to focus on. That's what Howells was interested in. African Americans loved Dunbar, they loved his dialect poetry, but they also loved the finer elements of life that Paul Lawrence Dunbar wrote. So he was far more diverse than people gave him credit for.