The drifters
Subtitle: a Christian historical novel about the Melungeon shanty boat people
By: Tonya Holmes Shook.
Publisher: Marquette Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Spokane, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Melungeons -- Fiction; Women -- Kentucky -- Fiction; Shantyboats and shantyboaters -- Fiction; Kentucky -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Harriett Holmes was 15 and pregnant when she boarded in 1837 a Kentucky shantyboat that would become her home for the next decade. Life was difficult for many people during the 1800s, but it was especially so for Harriett's family, because they were Melungeons, a mixed race with low social status.