What is the author's style in A Land Remembered by Patrick Smith?

The author develops characters consistent with their geography and economic status. Tobias and Emma are poor uneducated people and speak imperfect English with Southern colloquialisms inserted. For example, a typical passage from Tobias is "'They ain't likely to come into the scrub, unless they get a hankering for coon meat. But I'll keep an eye out, and I rightly thank you for the warning. I'll be back afore long,'" Chapter 4, p. 25. As a former slave, Skillit has a language style all his own that includes statements like this: "'I sho' would, missus. I'd be right proud to et another bowl. You be's a fine cook, a fine one,'" Chapter 11, p. 75. As the family grows, Zech marries an educated girl named Glenda whose verbal skills are more refined than the MacIveys. The author also provides the Seminole Indians with a distinct voice as in this example of Keith Tiger: "'It is a horse left behind by the Spanish soldiers. It is small and runty but very strong and big of heart. My people used the marshtackie back in the days before the white men told us we could no longer herd cattle,'" Chapter 3, p. 22.