Early America was far more ethnically and racially complex than we have been taught. |
Early America was far more ethnically and racially complex than we have been taught. Some whites were not northern European, some blacks were not sub-Saharan African, and some Indians and some mulattos were not Indians and mulattos… We Melungeons and, indeed, other mixed groups have irrefutable ties not only to northern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and early America, but also to the eastern Mediterranean, southern Europe, northern African, and central Asia.
N. Brent Kennedy, “Introduction,” in North From the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio, authors John S. Kessler and Donald B. Ball. (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2001), pp. ix-x.
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