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An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America.

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In this 1994 cri de coeur Brent Kennedy discusses the Melungeon branches of his family tree.  One branch is on my family tree, twice since my paternal grandparents were cousins. This book provided my first hint that my own family tree harbored some mysterious ancestors. It launched me on a ten-year quest to discover who the Melungeons were, where they came from, and whether or not my ancestors had been among them. The book also launched an Appalachian liberation movement of sorts, as many who had been taught to conceal their racially mixed ancestry rushed to claim it – and…

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