(Warning: Racial slurs are present in this book.) For those who don’t know why Melungeons of Tennessee (like my family) hid in the mountains or why Silas is so afraid of people in Ellistown…well, here it is. Silas deals with more problems in The Thundering Ones, and portrayals like this are the reason. Up until probably the 1960s, Melungeons were considered demons and non-human, only because we were mixed. I know in my family, we were dark-skinned, just tan, Cherokee, or Indian, never Melungeon or Black. The book is called “God Bless the Devil” by James R. Aswell, published in 1940. #melungeon #folktales #easttennessee
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