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The Melungeon Heritage Association is a nonprofit organization that documents and preserves the history and cultural legacy of the Melungeon people of Appalachia, but also mixed ancestry peoples of the Southern and Eastern United States.
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Bonus: The Untold Story of Free People of Color and Melungeons in North Carolina (opens the original)
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Latonya Beatty is a Melungeon descendant, MHA member, and consultant, as well as a Melungeon researcher. She was on the Melungeon Voices podcast in Season 2, Episode 3, where she shared with us her Melungeon ancestry. She is back and now has her own podcast channel on Spotify called The Untold Story of Free People of Color and Melungeons in North Carolina. We discuss her new podcast and future episodes.
S6 E10: Free People of Color and the American Revolution (opens the original)
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Gigi Best-Richardson, will be discussing Free People of Color and the American Revolution, as well as her book, "Thomas the Melungeon: His Locust Family of Free Persons of Color Civil and Revolutionary War Patriots – Vol 1." You can purchase her book here at this Link: Home St. Augustine | Best Richardson African Diaspora Literature & Culture MuseumGigi Best-Richardson is a Historian (Phi Alpha Theta), Genealogist, Speaker, and a Virginia Humanities Scholar. An award-winning author of Thomas the
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