| The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People Contributor(s): Kennedy, N. Brent (Author), Kennedy, Robyn Vaughan (Joint Author) |
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ISBN: 0865545162 ISBN-13: 9780865545168 Publisher: Mercer University Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1996 Annotation: A manifesto of a forgotten people. Kennedy's memoir of discovery is personal and historical, cultural, and autobiographical. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 974 |
| LCCN: 97107444 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.97" W x 8.96" (0.60 lbs) 180 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |