How did slaves talk in the 1800's specifically in Finland?

Question

Greetings. I am writing a book inn which during the 1800's there is a slave. The story takes place in Finland. Therefore I concluded the obviously they would not speak like southern U.S. slaves but did not exactly know how they would speak. Please and Thankyou!

Answer 1

There might have been some Russian serfs, or escaped ones, that would speak some low-class dialect of Russian I suppose. In Finland there was no serfdom, but since it was an autonomous part of Russian empire, there might have been some serfs from Russia. Serfdom is, or at least can develop to be, a sort of slavery, or slave-like condition.

However it is highly unlikely that there would have been any slaves or serfs of African descent, since Finland was considered a remote autonomous part of the Russian empire those days. Maybe the only possibility is the situation Guest7873 is suggesting. Whether there were any actual cases, I don't know. But in any case, his/her life would have been very unlike the slaves in the countries that had slaves of African descent, since there were no social community of his/her kind and s/he would have been noticed and observed where ever s/he'd have appeared.

However, in those days in Finland there were (mostly Finnish-speaking) tenant farmers ("torppari" sg., "torpparit" pl.) that might have been living in near slave-like conditions.

There were also some (mostly Finnish-speaking) children, handicapped, and elderly people that were without sustenance. Officials let them to be in a way rented in an auction-like situations. They might end up in a slave-like conditions doing hard work with only minimal sustenance. They were called "huutolainen" (sg., "huutolaiset" pl.) which derives from the the word auction (in Finnish "huutokauppa", literally shout-market, so a "shoutee" or  a "shouted" or "auctioned" might be a good translation for "huutolainen" - I don't know if there is any official translation for the term)

Btw, I'm Finnish, but not an expert on this question.