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Curtis Christy asserted: "I assert again that not only is the evidence NOT overwhelming that they didn’t use the term, but—in fact—there IS no evidence of the kind. There’s that proving the null problem again. On the other hand, I believe that the existence of the term Melungu in the Portuguese language … as an acknowledged borrowed word from the Angolans, and the fact that we KNOW the Angolans were brought here, etc., and that we have certainly sufficient evidence that some of them were involved in the development of key Melungeon family lines … even if Goins is the only one that every shows it, that the fraternization among the lines, the close connections kept that led to them continually moving along together, marrying back and forth, etc., PROVES that they started out very early with a kind of familial connection that wasn’t necessarily by blood, per se, but by the kind of connection that the work Melungu implies. Given the way the term is used …. (yadayadayada) "
Curtis Christy,
How does Tim Hashaw's theory explain the other exonyms commonly used to reference other fpc enclaves populated by individuals using the Goins surname?
Lucy Suder
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