{"product_id":"9781451627619","title":"The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this gorgeously written and “vividly fascinating” (\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e) account, a prize-winning journalist digs deep into his ancestry looking for the origins of his unusual last name and discovers that he comes from one of America’s earliest mixed-race families.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“My dad’s family was a mystery,” writes journalist Joe Mozingo, having grown up with only rumors about where his father’s family was from—Italy, France, the Basque Country. But when a college professor told the blue-eyed Californian that his family name may have come from sub-Saharan Africa, Mozingo set out on an epic journey to uncover the truth. He soon discovered that all Mozingos in America, including his father’s line, appeared to have descended from a black man named Edward Mozingo who was brought to America as a slave in 1644 and, after winning his freedom twenty-eight years later, became a tenant tobacco farmer, married a white woman, and fathered one of the country’s earliest mixed-race family lineages.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTugging at the buried thread of his origins, Joe Mozingo has unearthed a saga that encompasses the full sweep of America’s history and lays bare the country’s tortured and paradoxical experience with race.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHaunting and beautiful, Mozingo’s memoir paints a world where the lines based on color are both illusory and life altering. He traces his family line from the ravages of the slave trade to the mixed-race society of colonial Virginia and through the brutal imposition of racial laws.","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155020759280,"sku":"9781451627619","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781451627619_p0.jpg?v=1763839896","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781451627619","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}