{"product_id":"the-fiddler-on-pantico-run-an-african-warrior-his-white-descendants-a-search-for-family-9781451627602","title":"The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, a Search for Family","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joe Mozingo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A captivating debut... that reads like an adventure novel\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Fiddler on Pantico Run\u003c\/i\u003e is both the moving story of one man's quest to understand his past and the larger story of lineage, identity, and race in America.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45410953855127,"sku":"9781451627602","price":1566.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781451627602.webp?v=1767672669","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-fiddler-on-pantico-run-an-african-warrior-his-white-descendants-a-search-for-family-9781451627602","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}