Re: Back to the Melungeons
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Marion Pezzullo 7/12/07
Joanne,
I suspect Larry Keels will support me asking if you realize these multi-ethnic individuals seemingly always initially approached their more recently arrived neighbors as civic and social equals.Their refusal to accept diminished status does not necessarily imply they endorsed the white supremist attitudes of the settlers from the coastal colonies.
The culture of their Amerind ancestors would not have seen complexion as a qualifier of merit.Their "white renegade" ancestry would certainly not have welcomed any dictates from the Puritan Christian culture represented by the paler settlers from the coast.Whatever African or Asian Sub-continent ancestry they possessed should certainly not have influenced them to prejudge complexion questions in similar fashion to their paler neighbors.
What your example clarifies is only the racist attitudes typical of the fairer Christian Europeans.This is what history declares a given.This is what motivated all the civic actions which attempted to diminish the status of all the multi-ethnic enclaves discovered as Christian style civilization spread across the backcountry Amerind homelands and into Louisiana and Texas.
L ester K nough Cummings
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