Ancestors and Enemies: Essays on Melungeons
Mar 2014 · Panther`s Lodge Publishers
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As the twentieth century drew to an end and the millennium approached, a new ethnic category was invented in the South. The Melungeons were born thrashing and squawling into the American consciousness. They were a tri-racial clan hidden away in the hills and hollers of Lower Appalachia with a genetic predisposition to six fingers and Mediterranean diseases and an unsavory reputation for moonshining, counterfeiting and secret cults. DNA studies showed they were probably descended from Portuguese colonists and had connections with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans and Romani (Gypsies). Were they the country's oldest indigenous people? They soon got on the radar of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Office of Recognition, which fought the nascent identity movement tooth and nail. This collection by two researchers involved in the explosive controversy tells the story of the Melungeon Movement in a coherent, chronological fashion for the first time. Fourteen original illlustrations, ranging from Granny Dollar, the last Cherokee Indian in Northeast Alabama, to Luis Gomez, builder of the oldest standing Jewish residence in the United States, add interest to the portrayal of this mysterious and exotic ethnic community.
As the twentieth century drew to an end and the millennium approached, a new ethnic category was invented in the South. The Melungeons were born thrashing and squawling into the American consciousness. They were a tri-racial clan hidden away in the hills and hollers of Lower Appalachia with a gen...
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Donald N. Yates is a native of Cedartown, Georgia. He earned a Ph.D. in classical studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel. His latest books are Old Souls in a New World: The Secret History of the Cherokee Indians and Cherokee DNA Studies: Real People Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong. Phyllis E. Starnes was born in Fort Blackmore, in Scott County, Virginia. Her family belongs to the original Stony Creek Primitive Baptist Church, where “them Melungeons” made their first appearance in history (now Pine Grove).
Donald N. Yates is a native of Cedartown, Georgia. He earned a Ph.D. in classical studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel. His latest books are Old Souls in a New World: The Secret History of the Cherokee Indians and Cherokee DNA Studies: Real People Who Proved the Geneticists Wr...
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