Abe Lincoln was a Negro!

OK, I did some more weirdo Internet searching, and while looking over the sites I mentioned below, I spotted an entire category of ethnological research (legit, supposedly) 'lost peoples' or small but very singular ethnic groups in the Western Hemisphere. Some are culturally aligned, like "Os Confederos"--- a group of American Southerners who expatriated to Brazil after losing the Civil War.

Still others are surprising amalgamations of distant cultures, like “Melungeons" who though originally were considered the earliest settlers in Appalachia and from a mix of Scot, Portuguese, Native American and African ancestry, are now possible considered descendants of Turkish servants liberated from Spanish and Portuguese masters by Sir Francis Drake. Drake unloaded these guys in the Carolinas, and they supposedly pushed inland to intermix with Native American Tribes.




Of those people, some famous Americans that may be descendant from them are:


Abraham Lincoln, Elvis Presley and Ava Gardner, to name a few.