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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Mar 5, 2020 17:56:33 GMT -5
JA Rogers (1942) Sex and Race v2 is where I first read of them. Will transcribe some of the book's pages as time and will permit.
Chapter Thirty-five
MIXED BLOOD GROUPS WHO ARE KNOWN AS OTHER THAN NEGROES
There are many groups of mixed Caucasian, Negro, and Indian ancestry, who either deny their Negro strain or claim to be of foreign origin. Among them are the "Moors" of Delaware; the Melungeons of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee; the Croatans and the Rednecks of Virginia; the Jackson Whites of the Ramapo Mountains, New York; and the Gouldstown Settlers of New Jersey.
The "Moors" of Delaware asserts that they came to America prior to the Revolution and are descendants of the Moors that were expelled from Spain.
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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Mar 5, 2020 18:40:26 GMT -5
However, GP Fisher, former attorney-general of Delaware, who once prosecuted one of them in a criminal case and had occasion to study their history, gives their origins as follows:
A white woman, named Regua, thought to be Irish, bought a Negro, "very tall, shapely and muscular" who was said to be a Congo prince and after living with him a few months, married him and reared a large family. The children could not marry Caucasian because of their color so they took Nanticoke Indians. "This race of people," he says, "were for the first two or three generations confined principally to the southeastern portion of Sussex County and more particularly in the neighborhood of Lewes, Millsboro, Georgia and Milton, but during the last sixty or seventy years has increased the area of this settlement very materially and are now to be found in almost every hundred in each county in the state but mostly in Sussex and Kent. From their origin to the present time they have continued to segregate themselves from the American citizens of African descent having their own churches and schools as much as practicable, . . .
"I have spoken of this race as a strange people because I have known some families among them all of whose children possess the features, hair and eyes of the pure Caucasian, while in other families the children would all be exceedingly swarthy in complexion but with perfectly straight black hair and occasionally a family whose children range through the entire racial gamut from the perfect blond to at least a quadroon, mulatto, and quite a number who possessed all the appearance of a redheaded, freckled face Hibernian."
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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Mar 5, 2020 19:07:23 GMT -5
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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Mar 5, 2020 19:09:19 GMT -5
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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Mar 5, 2020 19:10:20 GMT -5
The Croatans of Virginia and North Carolina are also said to be of Negro slave orign with an admixture of white and Indian, according to the Bureau of Vital Statistics of Virginia. Powell says:
"In the southern part of this county, near the North Carolina border we meet again with a mixed group, making pretensions to Indian origin. There are about 300 of them in Virginia, but the group extends over the border into North Carolina where they are twice as numerous. They are variously called 'Cuban Indians,' 'Portuguese' or 'Croatan Indians,' according to the explanation given of the origin as springing respectively from immigrant Cuban Aborigines, from shipwrecked Portuguese sailors, or from Sir Walter Raleigh's lost colony. Whites in this region assert that they are principally descended from 'Old Free Issues,' (that is, slaves freed and provided for by their former masters), with some infusion of Indian blood."
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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Mar 5, 2020 19:11:30 GMT -5
Mixed Strain in the Indian
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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Mar 5, 2020 19:20:32 GMT -5
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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Mar 5, 2020 19:24:54 GMT -5
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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Mar 6, 2020 20:51:36 GMT -5
Owned it but never thought much of Bradley's Dawn Voyage. He lied he never knew vanSertima's ... Before Columbus. It does have good relevant info but borrow before you buy it.
Can't vouch for neither Bradley nor Rootsie. No longer own the book + too lazy to rvw it meself. So here's a review:
Rootsie need learn to write w/o drudging up all that negative jazz,
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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Mar 6, 2020 20:54:24 GMT -5
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Post by Tukuler al~Takruri on Mar 6, 2020 21:07:06 GMT -5
100 yrs ago Leo Wiener pioneered the extensive data method in support of W Afr -> Americas documentation. The massive 3 vol work is still available though old and not an easy read and w/t racialism of the times. I.e., though investigating maritime Mali, in Africa &/t Discovery of America he chalks all the work up to "Arabs". Iirc Harold Lawrence (Kofi Wangara) in The Black Scholar was the primary investigator before vanSertima. Van Sertima is certain that even without nautical skills the crossing is actuated by winds and currents.
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