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Title: The Dominickers of Holmes County, Florida

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: The Dominickers were a group of biracial and triracial families who originated before the Civil War and were concentrated in the Florida Panhandle county of Holmes, in a corner of the southern part of the county west of the Choctawhatchee River, near the town of Ponce de Leon. The group was classified as one of the “reputed Indian-White-Negro racial isolates of the Eastern United States” by the United States Census Bureau in 1950 (Beale, “Estimated”). A few scholarly articles have also from time to time made brief mention of their existence (Beale, “American”; also identified on the map accompanying the Price article). The Dominickers are noteworthy because of their persistence from before the Civil War until the 1960s as a group distinct from both the white and black populations around them. However, since descendants of these families have frequently married outside the group and retain few, if any, physical or cultural differences from the surrounding population, it may be debatable whether the descendants still constitute an ethnic group at all. Few facts are known . . .

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Authors: Hood, William C

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