On Family and Fences: Tracing Melungeon Roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and Tennessee
The Melungeons are a group of indeterminable origin living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southeastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia. This thesis describes characteristics of these tri-racial isolates and gives theories as to their mysterious origins. Being darker skinned, the Melungeons were...
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PDXScholar
2010
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| Online Access: | https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1974 https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2974&context=open_access_etds |