The Melungeons: Resurrection of a Proud People - Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America

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N.Brent Kennedy Robyn V. Kennedy

The Melungeons

Resurrection of a Proud People - Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America

N.Brent Kennedy, Robyn V. Kennedy

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Mercer University Press
30 September 2002

History; Social & cultural history; Physical anthropology & ethnography

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As early as 1654, English and French explorers in the southern Appalachians reported seeing dark-skinned, brown- and blue-eyed, and European-featured people speaking broken Elizabethan English, living in cabins, tilling the land, smelting silver, practicing Christianity, and, most perplexing of all, claiming to be Portyghee. Declared free persons of color in the late 1700s by the English and Scottish-Irish immigrants, the Melungeons, as they were known, were driven off their lands and denied voting rights, education, and the right to judicial process. The law was enforced mercilessly and sometimes violently in the resoundingly successful effort to totally disenfranchise these earliest American settlers.

By: N.Brent Kennedy, Robyn V. Kennedy
Imprint: Mercer University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Second Edition
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780865545168
ISBN 10: 0865545162
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 30 September 2002
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active