The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People : An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America: Resurrection of a Proud People - Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America - Brossura

Kennedy, N. Brent; Kennedy, Robyn Vaughan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0865545162 ISBN 13: 9780865545168

Casa editrice: Mercer Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Mercer Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0865545162
• ISBN 13: 9780865545168
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 180