Thomas the Melungeon
Author | : Gigi Best |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692372081 |
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Author | : Gigi Best |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692372081 |
Author | : Lisa Alther |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1611451760 |
The author looks for her father's family in Virginia. They may have belonged to a mysterious group known as the Melungeons.
Author | : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman |
Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780865548619 |
Most of us probably think of America as being settled by British, Protestant colonists who fought the Indians, tamed the wilderness, and brought "democracy"-or at least a representative republic-to North America. To the contrary, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman's research indicates the earliest settlers were of Mediterranean extraction, and of a Jewish or Muslim religious persuasion. Sometimes called "Melungeons," these early settlers were among the earliest nonnative "Americans" to live in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. For fear of discrimination-since Muslims, Jews, "Indians," and other "persons of color" were often disenfranchised and abused-the Melungeons were reticent regarding their heritage. In fact, over time, many of the Melungeons themselves "forgot" where they came from. Hence, today, the Melungeons remain the "last lost tribe in America," even to themselves. Yet, Hirschman, supported by DNA testing, genealogies, and a variety of historical documents, suggests that the Melungeons included such notable early Americans as Daniel Boone, John Sevier, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Andrew Jackson. Once lost, but now, forgotten no more.
Author | : Jim Callahan |
Publisher | : The Overmountain Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2000-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781570721670 |
This is a history of the most well-known and studied group of Melungeons in the United States, the community in the Newman's Ridge area of Hancock County, Tennessee. The author is a descendant of the core group of Melungions from that community, related through his mother to the Mullins, Collins and Goings families.
Author | : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786464623 |
Americans have learned in elementary school that their country was founded by a group of brave, white, largely British Christians. Modern reinterpretations recognize the contributions of African and indigenous Americans, but the basic premise has persisted. This groundbreaking study fundamentally challenges the traditional national storyline by postulating that many of the initial colonists were actually of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry. Supporting references include historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA test results, genealogies, and settler lists that provide for the first time the Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, and Jewish origins of more than 5,000 surnames, the majority widely assumed to be British. By documenting the widespread presence of Jews and Muslims in prominent economic, political, financial and social positions in all of the original colonies, this innovative work offers a fresh perspective on the early American experience.
Author | : Bonnie Sage Ball |
Publisher | : The Overmountain Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780932807748 |
The author explores the theories surrounding the people called Melungeon, perhaps from the French word, "mélange," meaning a mixture.
Author | : William Vance Nash |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1465368086 |
"With a comprehensive study of libraries, archives, court houses, churches, land offices, maps and histories of nations and people the story of the William Nash and Anne Hopkins family comes to life in this book. The amusing and often tongue-in-cheek manner in which Bill Nash tells the story gives the reader a clear picture of the family saga. From the 1635 sailing from London to the present, this is the story of a courageous and proud people. Much more than just charts and lineages, “Our Nashes” intertwines the history of this nation with the Nash family into a hard-to-put-down volume."
Author | : N. Brent Kennedy |
Publisher | : IET |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780865545168 |
The author explores the theories surrounding the people called Melungeon, perhaps from the French word, "mélange," meaning a mixture. Includes lists of common surnames for Melungeons, Brass Ankles, Carmel Indians, Cubans, Guineas, Lumbee/Croatan Indians, Pamunkey/Powhatan Indians, and Redbones.
Author | : Tamara L. Stachowicz |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2018-04-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476631638 |
At a time when concepts of racial and ethnic identity increasingly define how we see ourselves and others, the ancestry of Melungeons--a Central Appalachian multiracial group believed to be of Native American, African and European origins--remains controversial. Who is Melungeon, how do we know and what does that mean? In a series of interviews with individuals who claim Melungeon heritage, the author finds common threads that point to shared history, appearance and values, and explores how we decide who we are and what kind of proof we need.
Author | : Pat Spurlock Elder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group which lived in the mountains in the southeastern United States. This work contains an explanation of their origins as well as an examination of myths and legends about them. Also contains information about Melungeon and Melungeon-related surnames.