The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People Tapa blanda - 1996

Mercer University Press. 2nd Rev and Corr ed. paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. tight, uncreased spine, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders

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Mercer University Press, 1996 soft cover in near fine condition. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.

Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. Near Fine. 1997. 2nd Revised and Corrected Edition. Trade Paperback. 180 pages. 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. An appendix lists commonn Melungeon names along with related surnames of Brass Ankles, Carmel Indians, Cubans, Guineas, Lumbee/Croatan Indians,… Leer más

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