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Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family by Rachel Jamison Webster
- Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family
- Rachel Jamison Webster
- Page: 384
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- ISBN: 9781250871800
- Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
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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 Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of his generation. Banneker then wrote what would become a famous letter to Jefferson, imploring the new president to examine his hypocrisy, as someone who claimed to love liberty yet was an enslaver. More than two centuries later, Rachel Jamison Webster, an ostensibly white woman, learns that this groundbreaking Black forefather is also her distant relative. Acting as a storyteller, Webster draws on oral history and conversations with her DNA cousins to imagine the lives of their shared ancestors across eleven generations, among them Banneker’s grandparents, an interracial couple who broke the law to marry when America was still a conglomerate of colonies under British rule. These stories shed light on the legal construction of race and display the brilliance and resistance of early African Americans in the face of increasingly unjust laws, some of which are still in effect in the present day.
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Acting as a storyteller, Webster draws on oral history and conversations with her DNA cousins to imagine the lives of their shared ancestors across eleven
Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an
Born into a family of freemen (and women!) in 1731, at a time when the majority of people of African descent in America were enslaved, Benjamin Banneker became
Benjamin Banneker and Us
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A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into
'Benjamin Banneker and Us' traces generations
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A White woman re-creates the lives of her Black ancestors
Mar 21, 2023 —
Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an
A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the.
Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an
A writing professor at Northwestern, she constructs a family history with relatives in this book and discovers that she, too, is a part of an American story of
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