{"id":13371,"date":"2013-04-10T13:49:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T13:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13371"},"modified":"2014-11-11T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T16:07:14","slug":"13371","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13371","title":{"rendered":"Early America was far more ethnically and racially complex than we have been taught."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Early America was far more ethnically and racially complex than we have been taught. Some whites were not <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_Europe\" target=\"_blank\">northern European<\/a>, some blacks were not <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sub-Saharan_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">sub-Saharan African<\/a>, and some Indians and some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulattos<\/a> were not Indians and mulattos&#8230; We <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=118\" target=\"_blank\">Melungeons<\/a> and, indeed, other mixed groups have irrefutable ties not only to northern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and early America, but also to the eastern Mediterranean, southern Europe, northern African, and central Asia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>N. Brent Kennedy, \u201cIntroduction,\u201d in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=13299\" target=\"_blank\">North From the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio<\/a><\/em>, authors John S. Kessler and Donald B. Ball.\u00a0 (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2001), \u00a0pp. ix-x.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early America was far more ethnically and racially complex than we have been taught. Some whites were not northern European, some blacks were not sub-Saharan African, and some Indians and some mulattos were not Indians and mulattos&#8230; We Melungeons and, indeed, other mixed groups have irrefutable ties not only to northern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6050,6051,6049,6048,6073],"class_list":["post-13371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-donald-b-ball","tag-donald-ball","tag-john-kessler","tag-john-s-kessler","tag-n-brent-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}