Brass Ankles, Red Bones, Turks, Smilings and Other Mestees of SC Melungeon The Americas
Brass Ankles, Red Bones, Turks, Smilings and Other Mestees of SC Melungeon The Americas
Brass Ankles, Red Bones, Turks, Smilings and Other Mestees of SC
Mestee (old mixed race) groups in South Carolina, such as the Brass Ankles, Red Bones, Turks, and Smilings. Description, history, sociology, status and connections with other groups. Connected with each other and with the Melungeons and Lumbees by movement and intermarriage. Can be considered to be Melungeons of South Carolina, since Melungeon can be used for any group of people derived from old mixing of White, Black and Native American, especially if the mix includes some Mediterranean input. All these groups fit this discription.
Top: Society: Ethnicity: The Americas: Melungeon: Brass Ankles, Red Bones, Turks, Smilings and Other Mestees of SC:
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- On-line full-text book with annotated bibliography with some information on the Mestees of South Carolina, with citations to Brewton Berry's and Edward Price's earlier work.
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- Discussion of legends of Moorish and/or Turkish origins of the Turks of Sumter County, SC.
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- Interesting site on the history of racial discrimination. Includes one letter on the Brass Ankles.
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- This article on Heather Locklear's Lumbee ancestry contains some references to the Mestees of South Carolina.
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- Citation to paper on the Turks by Harry Golden in the archives of Tuskegee University.
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- Transcript of a 1939 interview with a Brass Ankle woman conducted for the Federal Writer's Project. Provided by the American Life Histories collection, Library of Congress.
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- Genealogy.com site about Heinegg's book. Mentions Brass Ankles and Turks. See Heinegg's book on-line at http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/
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- An article about one location in South Carolina occupied by Brass Ankles, with some description of their lifestyle. From the American Life Histories collection, Library of Congress.
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- This article on Mestee groups mentions Brass Ankles, Red Bones and Turks of South Carolina. It combines the Red Bones of SC with the Redbones or Louisiana Melungeons. Based on DeMarce's work, for the most part.
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- Just a citation giving how to find a paper on the Turks.
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