单词 | melungeon |
释义 | Melungeonn. U.S. A member of a North American people of mixed white, black, and American Indian descent, inhabiting the southern Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Eastern America > [noun] Floridian1589 Chickasaw1674 Yamasee1699 Alabama1708 Natchez1708 Santee1709 Cherokee1721 Choctaw1722 Coushatta1722 Creek1725 Yuchi1738 Muskogee1751 Floridan1763 Muskogee1789 Mikasuki1791 Opelousa1805 Karankawa1806 Tunica1806 Melungeon1813 Alabamian1817 Ozark1819 Alabaman1829 1813 Minute Bk. Stony Creek Baptist Church 26 Sept. in searches.rootsweb.com/ (O.E.D. Archive) Then came forward Sister Kitchen and complained to the church against Susanna Stallard for saying she harbored them Melungins (Melungeons). 1840 Whig (Jonesborough, Tennessee) 7 Oct. 3/5 An effort was made, to get an impudent Malungeon from Washington City, a scoundrel who is half Negro and half Indian, and who has actually been speaking in Sullivan. 1889 Boston Traveller 13 Apr. 6/5 They resented the appellation Melungeon, given to them by common consent by the whites, and proudly called themselves Portuguese. 1901 Catholic World Feb. 574 Think of it! You off in foreign courts, probably talking to the Czar of all the Russias, while I am giving missions to the Melungeons of Tennessee! 1951 Geogr. Rev. 41 257 The Melungeons are said to have been disfranchised by the restrictions placed on free persons of color in the Tennessee Constitution of 1834. 1967 L. Pennington Dark Hills of Jesse Stuart vii. 116 The Melungeons were always a free people. Although they were often of dark complexion, they..were never enslaved. 1998 R. A. Wilson Everything is under Control (1999) 319 The FT [sc. Fortean Times] finds the most plausible theory is that the Melungeons were of mixed Moorish, Turkish, and Portuguese ancestry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1813 |
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