The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People. An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America / Edition 2

by N. Brent Kennedy, Robyn Vaughan Kennedy

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865545168
Publisher:	Mercer University Press
Publication date:	09/28/1996
Series:	The Melungeons Ser.
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	180
Sales rank:	524,553
Product dimensions:	5.97(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.48(d)