The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People

The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People

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.
Country USA
Brand Mercer University Press
Manufacturer Mercer University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrations, ports.
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780865545168
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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