Melungeon | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Melungeon


00:00:57 1 Definition
00:03:35 2 Origins
00:05:46 2.1 Evidence
00:12:25 2.2 Assimilation
00:15:27 2.3 Acceptance
00:18:42 3 Legends
00:23:31 4 Etymology
00:26:52 5 Modern identity
00:33:17 6 Similar groups
00:35:38 7 See also



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SUMMARY
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Melungeon ( mə-LUN-jən) is a term traditionally applied to one of numerous "tri-racial isolate" groups of the Southeastern United States. Historically, Melungeons were associated with the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia, which includes portions of East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and eastern Kentucky. Tri-racial describes populations thought to be of mixed European, African and Native American ancestry. Although there is no consensus on how many such groups exist, estimates range as high as 200.According to the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, in his 1950 dissertation, cultural geographer Edward Price proposed that Melungeons were families descended from free people of color (who were likely of both European and African ancestry) and mixed-race unions between persons of African ancestry and Native Americans in colonial Virginia, whose territory included the modern-day states of Kentucky and West Virginia.