Melungeon (ən {respell|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 descr.....
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• (n.) One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh`s lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct.Melun...
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Me·lun'geon noun [ Confer French
mélanger to mix,
mélange a mixture.] One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the
Croatan Indians , regarde...
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The Melungeons are a race of mixed descendants of northern Europeans and Angolan Africans of 17th century Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the Carolinas. These African ancestors first arrived in Virginia in 1619, one year before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. Early Virginians had not yet embraced chattel slavery and many Africans were indent...
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