Description
This is a four volume work of narrative nonfiction exploring themes of racism, dispossession, violence and injustice as experienced by Native Americans, African Americans and outcast or "unwanted" immigrants (Welsh, Canadian, Scots, Irish, Huguenots, Gitan-Roma, Sephardic, Melungeon tri-racial and other) to the New World. A survey, particularly of the eras 1650 to 1880, focuses on these people's home communities in the Southeast region of North America. Action devolves to examine specific extended families, residing around Jamestown and the Albemarle Sound region, and on the French Coast between Pensacola, Florida and New Orleans, Lousianna. "Torn Apart" concludes with summary, sometimes scathing, of race/class relations there from the Reconstruction era to the present. An Epilogue offers hope for the future. The work is segmented into four book-length projects. New World Immigrants is about hunters from Asia, despoiler Aristocrats, Euro/Afro outgroups, and "unwanteds." The second, The Baudraus, considers Canadian frontiersmen who joined with Indian Nations to settle the Louisiana colony. Book three considers the Creole Indians of the French coast and Celt incomers thru 1810 and the West Florida conflict. Book four examines Indian removal, the Lewis Brothers as enslaver polarities, and the liability of color continuing to 1984. Summer 2016
