Redbones of Louisiana : for 200 years Redbones have been Louisiana's mystery people/ Don C. Marler

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Title from cover.

Includes index.

"A Redbone is a person whose biological heritage is some combination of at least two of the following: Caucasian, American Indian or Negro and who is a member of a group that identifies itself as a Redbone group or Redbone community, holding certain values, beliefs, and worldviews"-Glossary, p. 278.

"Redbones began their migration west after the end of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), and by the time of the Civil War they had become well-established in Louisiana and east Texas. . . . Not all Redbones, of course, migrated to the west; some stayed in the Carolinas and other southeastern states"-p. 159.

"Although Redbones were dispersed throughout central and southwest Louisiana and east Texas, the heaviest concentrations in Louisiana were in Pitkin, Westport, Starks, De Quincy, Elizabeth, Merryville, Fields, Longville, Bearhead, DeRidder, Sugartown, Oakdale, Leesville, Rosepine, Forest Hill, Glenmora, Walnut Hill, New Hope and Hineston"-P. 139-140.

Contents: The name -- Race, racism, and slavery -- White slavery -- Racial mixture -- Groups resisting racism and slavery -- Selected Louisiana isolated groups -- Redbones of Sumter County South Carolina -- The location -- Redbone migration to Louisiana -- Nature/nurture-definition and identity -- The Redbone culture of violence -- Old sayings, beliefs, practices, legends -- Conclusions - Glossary - List of Seminole Indian surnames - List of Lumbee Indian surnames - Melungeon Surnames - Plecker letters - Surnames of immigrants from Barbados - Redbone surnames - Cherokee surnames - Names of lost colony of Roanoke.

Includes some cemetery information.

Also available on microfiche and digital images.

Bibliography: p. 324-341.

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