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Exactly what members of John or Joseph BLAKEMORE's descendants have been examined by either Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman or Donald Yates?
According to historical accounts I have read online, there were FOUR families who originally occupied Fort BLAKEMORE -- John BLAKEMORE's family, Joseph BLAKEMORE's family, the GREEN family and one other family who is currently unidentified.
This historical revisionism set forth by a professor at Rutgers University is absolutely PREPOSTEROUS.
More Historical Revisionism from a speech by Yates:
"....It is indeed a stunning revision of American history to think that the earliest settlers in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, and Tennessee were not stalwart, white-skinned Anglo-Saxons and Celts from the British Isles, but rather dusky, dark-eyed, dark haired, exotic, non-Christian Semites and Berbers from North Africa and Spain.
"It was Moors who occupied Black-a-moor's fort on the Clinch River; it was a Semitic Daniel Boone who cleared the path through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. This knowledge challenges not only our view of American history, but also the modern image of Jews and Muslims....
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=1700
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