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(SOCIOLOGY.) THE "JACKSON WHITES." Collection of material on the Ramapo, New York/New Jersey ethnic group. Original typescripts, photographs, newspaper clippings etc. Housed in a spiral bound notebook. should be seen New York/New Jersey, Ramapos, circa 1900-1950's
Someone's careful accumulation of material on these much misunderstood and oft-times maligned people, with a good deal of original typed manuscript included. In a remote portion of New Jersey's Ramapo Mountains, bordering on New York's Rockland County, there exists a unique, ethnically mixed group. The history of this group, the so-called "Jackson Whites," goes back more than two centuries, but the earliest printed mention of this reclusive people is to be found in an article entitled "A Community of Outcasts" in Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science and Art, dated 23 March, 1872. Subsequent writing on them has been largely negative hinting at terrible inbreeding to the point of mutation. These people are an ethnic mixture of indigenous Ramapo Indians, runaway slaves and early Dutch and Hessians residents of Southern New York. They had remained essentially isolated until the 1950's, when some of the children started attending the regular schools.
