Name: Melungeon
Duration: P00H05M38S
Description: Melungeon: One of a small group of dark-skinned people of uncertain origin living in the mountains of eastern Tennessee - American Heritage Dictionary

Melungeon

from Proletariat Moon by Creepy Old Trucks

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Melungeon: One of a small group of dark-skinned people of uncertain origin living in the mountains of eastern Tennessee - American Heritage Dictionary

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In the 1750s, Scotch-Irish settlers, following land grants from the
King of England, moved through the Appalachian Mountains and
encountered a peculiar tribe of dark-skinned, sometimes blue-eyed
people speaking Elizabethan English and calling themselves
"Portygee" or Turks. They lived in familiar wood-frame houses,
practiced metallurgy, and rang a bell for religious service. According
to one theory of their appearance, the English explorer Sir Francis
Drake, was on his way to his colony in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1586,
with 500 slaves captured from Spanish galleons. He abandoned the
slaves off the coast of North Carolina, leaving them to their fate. At
the time of their rediscovery, the Melungeons were considered
legitimate landowners, but later in the century, as their land became
more valuable, they were reclassified as "free persons of color" which
stripped them of their lands, the right to vote, to be represented in
court and to public education. To this day, the Melungeons still seek
to uncover the roots of their history.

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from Proletariat Moon, released June 1, 2003

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Creepy Old Trucks at it's core was Tom Potts (Lickity) and Scott Arbogast (Rainstick Cowbell) with Gary Cleveland (458) being the best drummer we ever played with. Dude had chops and was integral part of the band during the Different... Not Dumb period. Scott and Tom met in Tampa, Florida in 1991 and moved to Colorado and eventually Portland, Oregon in 1996. ... more

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