This is a history of the most well-known and studied group of Melungeons in the United States, the community in the Newman's Ridge area of Hancock County, Tenne

Most of us probably think of America as being settled by British, Protestant colonists who fought the Indians, tamed the wilderness, and brought "democracy"-or

The author explores the theories surrounding the people called Melungeon, perhaps from the French word, "mélange," meaning a mixture.

Americans have learned in elementary school that their country was founded by a group of brave, white, largely British Christians. Modern reinterpretations reco