Quote Originally Posted by beloitpiper View Post
Of course there were Scottish plantation owners, but the Scottish plantation owners would've spoken English. Only the poor (i.e. slaves or sharecroppers) would've spoken Gaelic as their primary language.
This just wasn't true. Read a bit of history, such as that of Cumberland County, North Carolina, and the rest of the Cape Fear River valley.

Whether they spoke Gaelic or not, it was far more likely to have been slave owners who taught their slaves to sing by lining out the hymns than fellow slaves. It was slave owners, not fellow slaves, who determined the religion of the enslaved and how it was practiced.