My ancestors were melungeons. I thought this was an excellent presentation by Dr. Smallwood. He did a thorough job explaining all the admixture in early America.

This make so much sense. My family originated from the Carolinas and Virginia and we have multi racial heritage. My maternal great grandparents were labled mixed on the census before 1930 and they both have Native American ancestry. After 1930 their race was changed to just negro, then black.

Genealogy doesn't lie but DNA test kits do as well as other people

I ran across this video and was tickled that Professor Smallwood is at A&T. I am an A&T graduate and melungeon are on my father's side.

Great video , the point made about the natives being susceptible to European diseases raises a lot of questions . Dr. Smallwood assertion that the natives retreated from English invaders out of fear of contracting diseases subtly suggest the improbability of natives having the same genetic makeup of Africans , that is, in terms of their immune system. Would it be fair to suggest that intermixing with Africans strengthen the immune system of native Americans to where their immune system would be resistance to European diseases ? A study should be under taken to determine which native tribes were immune to European diseases .

Melungeon - both my mother and fathers family reside in hancock Co TN, related to Mahala Mullins & Vardy Collins

Shoutout to dr. arwin smallwood. Tuscarora by blood

Awesome presentation tonight i am from goldsboro north Carolina and now i just finding out what indian i am from.

Explanations that make sense…. Thank you!

Very interesting and informative please share more ❤my family is from Virginia

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Almost all of my family on my Mother's side came from Hawkins Co, TN. We have oral histories of Indian ancestory, but I can't verify it. Surnames "White" "Scobee" "Mills" "Rouse". My direct lines almost all migrated to a specific area in the hills of Missouri around the 1880's. I suspect Melungeon heritage.I did find a pic of my great grandma who appears black or mixed, but records indicate she didnt read or write and has no parents listed on any documents - which is weird for such a recent relative. Her maiden name states "Greer"

I think the black moors played a big part in all of it they had trade with this continent someone had to be the interpreter maybe a moor that fought against his moorish brothers as they were driven out of southern Europe

I accept that. You absolutely learn by asking questions.Thanks for your comments.

There is a treaty of peace and friendship in 1787- 1836 and in that treaty they could not enslave a Moor, ancient Berbers and their descendants, because they were under the Sultan's jurisdiction and protection. I am quiet sure they knew nothing or anything about the treaty, the Barbary treaties!

@Michael Eure ok l see it here at the end. Thank you❤

This so crazy my ancestor is William Williams he was Billy Williams the Catawba Indian

Ok, where would we find the documentation on these Africans and where they came from in Africa? I would like to match the documentation with the stories.

This is so interesting

I am Melougeon. Gibson family. I ham having a hard time tracing my ancestors because of persecution.

Thank you for uploading this video. I am so interested in your knowledge. Can you please put a link here for part 1.

wow .. good history

One of the most interesting things to me was in Europe they had famine and growing food was difficult and that left Europe in trouble. How ! How did the Natives in America know how to go down to the river catch fresh fish, then take the fish to the growing area and crack open the ground and embed the fish and there they were very consistent on a healthy crop year in year out. I as a simple God fearing man I find that totally amazing. I went to a Pow-WoW in Nottaway County in VA and I asked the Chief that very same question and his reply was DEVINE WISDOM 🤔

To call someone black back in the days were fighting words

The five civilized tribes are the Bey, Dey, Al, El, and Ali! Which were changed by the colonizers!

Somebody should've asked him, how can you tell the difference between the Indians and the African?...

I would like the slides please but l don’t see your email address. I was taking screenshots and gave up! Thank you❤

Great discussion👌🏾my great grandfather(Gideon Spence) was from South Mills,Camden County,NC,born in 1860. He was a Cherokee(although the Indians that inhabited his county were “Yeopim”,not sure where the Cherokee designation came from)and migrated up north(Rhode Island) in the late 1890’s. In any case,he had some “Brazilian/Portuguese” ancestry on his mother’s side. He had the “tri-racial” mixture (Cherokee,Portuguese,African)the Professor had referred to.

Most of the so called Africans you speak of were exiles from Spain & Portugal who mixed with African tribes prior to 1492. Landinos.

Where are the Africans from if they are in English armies and what is that alliance called?

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True you and yours have your own BIASES instead of the truth.

Where are the Anniyanwia in all of this?

Wow!! I have a lot of ancestors from Bertie County, Robeson County and surrounding areas. They are my major BRICK WALLS! My other "dead ends" are in South Carolina; Marion, Latta, Dillon, Pee Dee area, Cheraw, Chesterfield and some surrounding areas. Those are my main places though. I show West African ( Senegambian/Guinea/Cabo Verde) and North African/Western Asian; Egypt!! ( Arab, Levant too). I have cousins from these areas that show; Portuguese, Indigenous American, North African ( various parts along with Egyptian and Coptic Egyptian), West African ( varies) but places include Angolan/Congolese, Mali etc.. along with West/East Asian. That's just some of my white cousins lol. I have 3rd and 4th "white" cousins that are at the very least anywhere from 1 to 14% to "black" cousins that show up to 60% African. PLEASE, DON'T stop doing videos like this.. people who do the Geni pages/wiki tree are falsifying and denying who these people really are. I want and appreciate the truth!! They are my ancestors too and I want them acknowledged 💛 thank you. I can't find my "links" that I so desperately crave to find..I research every single day and try to dig for the truth. Unlike the people lying and making up stories.. I am NOT ashamed of my ancestors. I would not be here if it weren't for any single one of them!!

You must also realize that there were people living outside of the European colonies! That were confined to the colonies!

Sir Francis Drake was a Mixed looking man like #Creole he was a #Viking why isn’t he using that noun

If Drake brought and employed/ paid? Then why would he have to release them ?

Muscogee indians where called moores due to color but they were indian.. after all the stock of seminoles who descend also from the creeks were mustee.. or muskeet.. mulungeon, mulatto.. ets. But this has nothing to do with africa..

If People from Africa were here in the 1500's and before then how can it be that Africans came in 1619?

Yea family my father is adopted from south Hampton born and my mother side is all through vance franklin warren county Sandy creek Henderson nc all the way bacc to the 1820 census my dna came back 92% west African 1% Peru 1% Philippino 6% European another test said i was 72% carrib let's link family keep researching yourself

Walter Pleckert law

The funny part about this "presentation " is that he's not showing a source or logs. Then says he just drops off 700 "Africans" that he mistakenly called Indians in the beginning then cleaned it up...I smell bs on that too.

They ate each other

No disrespect to you brother, but why do you call them Indians when the land is not India?

What language did aboriginal americans speak?

If you aren’t speaking on the Ancient History of the Carolinaopolis he is an agent of the conquistadors Older than the continent of Aethiopia

I'm not sure about Africans because even so called Africans don't call themselves so and the wight man is the one that came up with the name Africa everybody not African

Tri racial came mostly through black indigenous AKA Indians owning white women servants

He purposely left out that native Americans were shipped to Africa as well and is another reason why I said this is disingenuous...you can't know one without the other because its part of the primary sources... tell him to show his primary source and spot where he got it from next time he does a presentation 😉

Why would he leave his soldiers 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Spain introduced west Indies to the main land of America's. He's calling African

Now he's showing his hand 52:18 Indians depicted with Afros not long straight hair🌋🌋🌋🌋 ...those weren't Africans either if I remember from the primary source. He had 2 Indian escorts smh... I can be wrong but if memory serves lol...this dude BUGGIN

Why and when did they European start classifying Africans and so called Indians is black and colored and infact Indians because it disconnected them from their land along with the Unam Sanctum doctrine of discovery operations around that time!

We are the #Tobacco Indians and the Europeans were Swarthy he is Lying Drake is a European family of Sephardic origin

WHERE DID THE NATIVE AMERICANS COME FROM ALSO THEIRS A PLAY ON WORDS ONE MINUTE NATIVE AMERICAN NEXT INDIAN THEY ARE NOT THE SAME.

When you work for ziddy you are only going to tell ziddy story

There's this level of being disingenuous here...I'll show you how. He won't show you a primary source. Some of what's being said is true but its being mixed, misdirected and is conjecture turned or made to be facts. I read the primary sources ...he won't tell you about the black Europeans who were first as if they ain't show up or was around and that's where the trust goes out the window.

African or African American self identity . didn't exist

Also those weren't Africans that were taken off the Spanish boat in 1619...they were called Negras or negros. They knew the difference in 1619 and would've called them Africans...smh the games these fake historians play. Mind you he showed a map that had the Indians on it with "Afros " next to Europeans on the bottom right of the map. You woulda agreed they were Africans if he woulda gave you a story lol