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The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People : An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America
The Melungeons The Resurrection of a Proud People An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America
Author: N. Brent Kennedy, Robyn Vaughan Kennedy
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 per...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780865545168
ISBN-10: 0865545162
Publication Date: 1/1997
Pages: 180
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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