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Sybil:
On other origins for Driggers, I agree these are all possibilities, as is Dreger. I think it would depend on how far back these names came to America, whether the owners of the names were influenced in some manner to make them think that "Driggers" was a more "American" name and whether they thought they needed to americanize their names, in the first place.
On deciding whether your particular branch of the Driggers clan is one of the above or one of Emmanuel Rodriguez' descendants, depends on researching your line and seeing who showed up from where with the name.
In my case, I can place my gggg-grandfather, Isaac Driggers, born about 1788, in Marion Co, SC in 1820 and 1810. I can place descendants of Emmanuel Rodriguez in the same area before 1765 and still in the area in 1790. So I believe the chances are pretty good that Rodriguez is my ancestor.
Or course, now the question is, what exactly was Emmanuel Rodriguez? In the 1600's, "negro" was a color, not a race or ethnicity, and slavery was a condition open to all. It referred to someone in the medium to darker brown shades.
I'm reading a really interesting book on this subject, "Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples", Jack D. Forbes, Univ of Illinois Press, 1993. I'll let y'all know how it turns out.
Jackie Buzbee Davis
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