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The fiddler on Pantico Run : an African captive, his white descendants, a search for family / Joe Mozingo.

by Mozingo, Joe.

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New York : Free Press, 2012.

Mozingo family.

Mozingo, Joe -- Family.

Mozingo, Joe -- Travel -- Africa.

United States -- Genealogy.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1211/2012008971-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1211/2012008971-d.html

x, 304 p. ; 25 cm.

1st Free Press hardcover ed.

The strange twist of history -- A man named Edward Mozingo -- Middle Passage to Jamestown -- A bastard child -- The enigma of the fiddler -- Living with ghosts -- Setting out for the Piedmont -- White in Bourbon County -- A tortured netherworld -- A covenant between God and Mozingos -- A deep-seated fear -- Back to the northern neck -- I too was told Mozingo was Italian -- South of the River of Prawns -- A thousand miles of Bantu Coast -- You are coming to the source -- The path of the python -- Take me to old Calabar -- In memory of the first baptized, 1491.

Uncovers the history of the author's multicultural family and the story of his ancestor, a Jamestown colony slave who won his freedom in 1672 to become a tobacco farmer and the head of one of America's first mixed-race families.

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