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From: "Dennis Maggard" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Plecker revisited
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 15:10:27 -0500
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From: "John T" <>

>. The Melungeons were all enumerated as FPC and in old tax records as
mulatto, I don't know of one Melungeon that was not enumerated FPC or
mulatto in some records...

Frank/John T, you keep asserting this without proof. Upon what do you base
this claim? How can you possibly know that *all* Melungeons were enumerated
as FPCs? (And a what time would that be anyway?) Do you have an exhaustive
list of all Melungeons at some point in time? (If so, we'd all like to see
that list!!) If not, how can you make this claim with such absolute
certainty? You can, of course, *define* Melungeons as people enumerated as
FPCs under whatever other conditions you may care to name, but in that case
your claim becomes a mere tautology, true only for those accepting that part
of your definition

Dennis


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