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Benjamin Banneker and us eleven generations of an American family

"A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Bannek...

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Main Authors: Webster, Rachel J. (Author), Harris, Edith Lee (Author), Lett, Robert (Author), Marable, Gwen (Author), Lee, Edwin (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Kofman, Nadine tribute.
Welch, Bill tribute.
Banneker family.
Banneker, Benjamin, > 1731-1806 > Family.
Bana'ka, > approximately 1670- > Family.
Lett family.
Webster, Rachel J. > Family.
Racially mixed families > United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Author's note
  • Letter to the future
  • Denial in the bloodline
  • The milkmaid
  • Reverse migration
  • At sea
  • The park and the museum
  • The company of Maryland
  • The untangling
  • Stolen
  • The white horse
  • The elders
  • Juneteenth
  • Mary
  • Coincidences
  • Robert
  • Gwen
  • Childhood
  • I can't breathe
  • Keeping time
  • Letter carriers
  • Revolution
  • Toward the setting sun
  • The dream
  • Griots
  • The Capitol
  • Insurrection
  • The correspondence
  • The rift
  • Publication
  • Reckoning
  • The final years
  • Legacies
  • Burning
  • Fragments
  • The archive
  • On Banneker land
  • The end
  • Afterword.

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