G1 The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, Our Search for Family
Name of Book: The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, Our Search for Family Author: Joe Mozingo ISBN: 978-1-4516-2748-0 Publisher: Free Press Year it was published: 2012 Summary: Growing up, Joe Mozingo heard many stories about where his father's family was from- Italy, Hungary, the Basque Country. Then one day, a colleague told him his name came from the African Congo, and that sent Joe, a blue-eyed, brown-haired white man, on a journey to find the truth of his family roots. He discovered that he was descended from a slave brought to the Jamestown colony in 1644, Edward Mozingo, likely an African prince, who was one of the only slaves to keep his African surname. Edward had sued for his freedom, becoming a tobacco farmer on Pantico Run in Northern Virginia and marrying a white woman from a landowning family, fathering one of the country's first mixed race family lines. Research also showed he was a fiddler. Joe plunged deep into...