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From: Dennis Maggard <>
Subject: Re: [MELUNGEON] The Meluneons - According to Joanne
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:38:53 -0500
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:29:07 +0000, Joanne wrote:

>http://www.geocities.com/ourmelungeons/joannesmalungeons.html

Interesting stuff, Joanne.

As we all know -- and as some of your material illustrates -- there
was a heavy price to be paid in those days for having black ancestry.
And some people argue that the Melungeons claims of Portuguese
ancestry was nothing but a cover story to hide black ancestry, wrongly
implying that if they had black ancestry their claims of Portuguese
ancestry must be false.

Do you think the Melungeons of the early 19th century had no black
ancestry? Or do you think they had both black and Portuguese ancestry
and used the latter to help hide the former? Or do you think they had
black ancestry but were unaware of it?

Dennis

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