Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe In America

Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe In America

by Elizabeth Hirschman
Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe In America

Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe In America

by Elizabeth Hirschman

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Overview

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 Yet, Hirschman, supported by DNA testing, genealogies, and a variety of historical documents, suggests that the Melungeons included such notable early Americans as Daniel Boone, John Sevier, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Andrew Jackson.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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780865548619
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Publication date: 11/22/2004
Series: Melungeons
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 202
Product dimensions: 6.22(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.58(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword by N. Brent Kennedy vii Preface and Acknowledgments 1x

Chapter 1. 1

Melungeon Mythology-

Who Are We and How Did We Get Here?

Chapter 2. xxx

DNA, Disease, and Demographics­

The Keys to the Mystery

Chapter 3. xxx

1492-A Most Propitious Year

Chapter 4. xxx

Rewriting the Past-

A New Origin Story

Chapter 5. xxx

Family Trees and Family Treks-

Migration, Marriage, and Naming Patterns among the Melungeons

Chapter 6. xxx

The Ternplar/Freemason Connection

Chapter 7. xxx

Keeping the Faith-

How Jews and Moslems Gathered Together and Became Baptists

Chapter 8. xxx

We Are Not Alone--­"Melungeons" around the World

Chapter 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx

Reconstructing Our Past and Exploring Our Future-­ Whither the Melungeons?

Appendixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx

Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx

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