Tidewater Creoles are descendants of Atlantic Creoles that were brought to the Piedmont, Coastal Plains, and Sandhills regions of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and sometimes this includes early Black or Gullah Geechee and mixed race arrivals to Florida.
Some of the Tidewater Creoles have begun self identifying with the term "Qarsherskiyan" since the term was created in 1991 for Tidewater Creole descendants and multigenerationally mixed race families that do not already belong to a named Triracial Isolate group, meaning this does not include Melungeons, Lumbees, or Chestnut Ridge People.
by Jamal Omar Whiteside January 27, 2026
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