ISBN: 9780865545168

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 En… Mehr…

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.; Cultural History, Mercer University Press<

ISBN: 9780865545168

Find The Melungeions by N. Brent Kennedy in Paperback - Revised Ed. and other formats in Social Science > Minority Studies. Media > Books new, Mercer University Press

2002, ISBN: 9780865545168

Resurrection of a Proud People - Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America, Buch, Softcover, Second Edition, [PU: Mercer University Press], Mercer University Press, 2002