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Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line
List of Free African Americans in the American Revolution: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware
Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
King’s Mountain Men: The Story of the Battle with Sketches of the Soldiers Who Took Part
Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission
The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Explorations of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568
Blurring the Lines of Race & Freedom: Mulattoes & Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America
Ascribed Ethnicity and the Ethnic Display Event: The Melungeons of Hancock County, Tennessee
Melungeon History and Myth
Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio
Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America
The Catawba Indians: The People of the River
Strangers in Their Midst: The Free Black Population of Amherst County Virginia
The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
Red, White & Black: The Peoples of Early North America
Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America
The Melungeons: The Pioneers of the Interior Southeastern United States 1526-1997
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. I
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. II
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. III
The Road to Black Ned’s Forge: A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier
The Wilderness Road: A Description of the Routes of Travel by Which the Pioneer and Early Settlers First Came to Kentucky
“Not Negroes nor Slaves but Free People”: Free People of Color in the Colonial Southeast Indian Trade
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