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Melungeon, the Glossary

Melungeons (sometimes also spelled Malungeans, Melangeans, Melungeans, Melungins) are one of the many tri-racial isolate populations originating in colonial Virginia primarily descended from free people of color and white settlers.^[1]

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Ethnic groups in Appalachia
History of North Carolina
History of Tennessee
Multiracial ethnic groups in the United States
Self-identification as Native American in the United States
Society of Appalachia

Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States

In the United States, many U.S. states historically had anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriage and, in some states, interracial sexual relations.

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Ariela Gross

Ariela Julie Gross (born 1965) is an American historian.

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Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Atlantic Creole

Atlantic Creole is a cultural identifier of those with origins in the transatlantic settlement of the Americas via Europe and Africa. Melungeon and Atlantic Creole are pre-emancipation African-American history.

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Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Bill Bryson

William McGuire Bryson (born 8 December 1951) is an American-British journalist and author.

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Black Southerners

Black Southerners are African Americans living in the Southern United States, the United States region with the largest black population.

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British America

British America comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, and the successor British Empire, in the Americas from 1607 to 1783.

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Carolinas

The Carolinas, also known simply as Carolina, are the U.S. states of North Carolina and South Carolina considered collectively.

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Census Enumerators' Books

During the decennial England and Wales Censuses of 1841 to 1901, the individual schedules returned from each household were transcribed and collated by the census enumerators into Census Enumerators' Books (CEBs).

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Chestnut Ridge people

The Chestnut Ridge people (CRP) are a mixed-race community concentrated in an area northeast of Philippi, Barbour County in north-central West Virginia, with smaller related communities in the adjacent counties of Harrison and Taylor. Melungeon and Chestnut Ridge people are multiracial affairs in the United States, multiracial ethnic groups in the United States, Self-identification as Native American in the United States and society of Appalachia.

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Chris Offutt

Christopher John Offutt (born August 24, 1958) is an American writer.

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Colony of Virginia

The Colony of Virginia was a British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776.

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Creole peoples

Creole peoples may refer to various ethnic groups around the world.

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Croatan

The Croatan were a small Native American ethnic group living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina.

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Demon Copperhead

Demon Copperhead is a 2022 novel by Barbara Kingsolver.

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Dominickers

The Dominickers are a small biracial or triracial ethnic group that was once centered in the Florida Panhandle county of Holmes, in a corner of the southern part of the county west of the Choctawhatchee River, near the town of Ponce de Leon. Melungeon and Dominickers are multiracial ethnic groups in the United States and Self-identification as Native American in the United States.

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Dorland-Bell School

The Dorland-Bell School was a mission school in Hot Springs, North Carolina, USA.

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East Tennessee

East Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions of Tennessee defined in state law.

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Familial Mediterranean fever

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary inflammatory disorder.

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Free people of color

In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved. Melungeon and free people of color are pre-emancipation African-American history.

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Goins (surname)

Goins is a surname.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Graysville, Tennessee

Graysville is a town in Rhea County, Tennessee, United States.

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Haplotype

A haplotype (haploid genotype) is a group of alleles in an organism that are inherited together from a single parent.

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Hawkins County, Tennessee

Hawkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Hypodescent

In societies that regard some races or ethnic groups of people as dominant or superior and others as subordinate or inferior, hypodescent refers to the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union to the subordinate group.

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Indentured servitude

Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years.

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Inquisition

The Inquisition was a judicial procedure and a group of institutions within the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy, apostasy, blasphemy, witchcraft, and customs considered deviant.

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Interracial marriage in the United States

Interracial marriage has been legal throughout the United States since at least the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court (Warren Court) decision Loving v. Virginia (1967) that held that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional via the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868. Melungeon and Interracial marriage in the United States are multiracial affairs in the United States.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Jack D. Forbes

Jack Douglas Forbes (January 7, 1934 – February 23, 2011) was an American historian, writer, scholar, and political activist, who specialized in Native American issues.

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Jim Crow laws

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American.

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Judaism

Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Lançados

The lançados (literally, the thrown out onesPardue 2015: p. 42 or the cast out ones) were settlers and colonizers of Portuguese origin in Senegambia, Cabo Verde, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and other areas on the coast of West Africa.

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Lee County, Virginia

Lee County is the westernmost county in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia.

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This is a list of topics related to the African diaspora.

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Loving v. Virginia

Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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Lumbee

The Lumbee are a Native American people primarily centered in Robeson, Hoke, Cumberland, and Scotland counties in North Carolina.

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Monroe County, Tennessee

Monroe County is a county located on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Mulatto

Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.

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Multiracial people

The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Native American identity in the United States

Native American identity in the United States is a community identity, determined by the tribal nation the individual or group belongs to. Melungeon and Native American identity in the United States are multiracial affairs in the United States.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Old Stock Americans

The Old Stock (also called Pioneer Stock or Colonial Stock) is a colloquial name for Americans who are descended from the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies, especially ones who have inherited last names from that era ("Old Stock families").

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One-drop rule

The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. Melungeon and one-drop rule are multiracial affairs in the United States.

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Orange County, Virginia

Orange County is a county located in the Central Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Outer Banks

The Outer Banks (frequently abbreviated OBX) are a string of barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.

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Pardo

In the former Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas, pardos (feminine pardas) are triracial descendants of Southern Europeans, Indigenous Americans and West Africans.

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Pittsylvania County, Virginia

Pittsylvania County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Polk County, Tennessee

Polk County is a county located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Powhatan

The Powhatan people are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands who belong to member tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy, or Tsenacommacah. Melungeon and Powhatan are history of Virginia.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Racial Integrity Act of 1924

In 1924, the Virginia General Assembly enacted the Racial Integrity Act.

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Ramapough Mountain Indians

The Ramapough Mountain Indians (also spelled Ramapo), known also as the Ramapough Lenape Nation or Ramapough Lunaape Munsee Delaware Nation or Ramapo Mountain people, are a New Jersey state-recognized tribe based in Mahwah.

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Redbone (ethnicity)

Redbone is a term historically used in much of the southern United States to denote a multiracial individual or culture. Melungeon and Redbone (ethnicity) are multiracial ethnic groups in the United States and Self-identification as Native American in the United States.

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Roanoke Colony

Roanoke Colony was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America.

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Romani people

The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.

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Saponi

The Saponi are a Native American tribe historically based in the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia.

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Sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis (also known as Besnier–Boeck–Schaumann disease) is a disease involving abnormal collections of inflammatory cells that form lumps known as granulomata.

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Scott County, Virginia

Scott County is a county located in the far southwestern part of the U.S. state of Virginia, on the border with Tennessee.

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Sephardic Jews

Sephardic Jews (Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).

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Southern American English

Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United States, though concentrated increasingly in more rural areas, and spoken primarily by White Southerners.

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Southwest Virginia

Southwest Virginia, often abbreviated as SWVA, is a mountainous region of Virginia in the westernmost part of the commonwealth.

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Tampa Bay Times

The Tampa Bay Times, called the St.

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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America is a book by travel writer Bill Bryson, chronicling his 13,978-mile (22,495-km) trip around the United States in the autumn of 1987 and spring 1988.

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Traditional African religions

The beliefs and practices of African people are highly diverse, including various ethnic religions.

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Turks of South Carolina

The Turks of South Carolina, also known as Sumter Turks or Turks of Sumter County, are a group of people who have lived in the general area of Sumter County, South Carolina since the late 18th century.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States census

The United States census (plural censuses or census) is a census that is legally mandated by the Constitution of the United States.

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United States Department of the Interior

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources.

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University of Nebraska Press

The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books.

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The Vardy Community School was a Presbyterian mission school established in the Vardy community of Hancock County, Tennessee, United States, in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Virginia DeMarce

Virginia Easley DeMarce (born November 28, 1940) is an American historian who specializes in early modern European history, as well as a New York Times Best Selling author in the 1632 series collaborative fiction project.

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Walter Plecker

Walter Ashby Plecker (April 2, 1861 – August 2, 1947) was an American physician and public health advocate who was the first registrar of Virginia's Bureau of Vital Statistics, serving from 1912 to 1946. Melungeon and Walter Plecker are multiracial affairs in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon

Also known as Melungeon DNA Project, Melungeons, Melungins, Tri racial isolate, Tri-racial isolate.

, One-drop rule, Orange County, Virginia, Outer Banks, Pardo, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Polk County, Tennessee, Powhatan, Protestantism, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Racial Integrity Act of 1924, Ramapough Mountain Indians, Redbone (ethnicity), Roanoke Colony, Romani people, Saponi, Sarcoidosis, Scott County, Virginia, Sephardic Jews, Southern American English, Southwest Virginia, Tampa Bay Times, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, Traditional African religions, Turks of South Carolina, United States, United States census, United States Department of the Interior, University of Nebraska Press, Vardy Community School, Virginia, Virginia DeMarce, Walter Plecker, Warren Wilson College, White Southerners, Whitley County, Kentucky, Will Allen Dromgoole, Yellow journalism.

Melungeon, the Glossary

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See also

Ethnic groups in Appalachia

History of North Carolina

History of Tennessee

Multiracial ethnic groups in the United States

Self-identification as Native American in the United States

Society of Appalachia

References