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THE FIDDLER ON PANTICO RUN
MOZINGO, JOE
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
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, off 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
from the Kingdom of Kon, who was one of the only slaves to keep his African surname. Edward had sued for his
freedom, becoming a tobacco farmer on a country road called 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 the scattered historical records, traveling all around the country
meeting Mozingos black, white, and mixed race, and over to Africa to the depths of the Congo and the slave
ports of Angola, to uncover the full family saga. In a beautifully crafted narrative of both personal discovery and
historical revelation, he traces his ancestors from the burgeoning mixed-race society of colonial Virginia, through
the brutal imposition of racial laws and the splitting of the lineage, as those who could pass for white distanced
from their slave heritage. In Joe’s own line, Spencer lived as a white man, right down the road from James
Madison, then moved west to chase America’s manifest destiny. His descendants fought on both sides of the
Civil War, and some were abolitionists while others joined the KKK. Joe’s grandfather transplanted the family to
Hollywood to find their own piece of the American dream.
BIOGRAPHY 1ST PRINTING 40,000
FREE PRESS 320 PAGES
9781451627480
$29.99 HC
OCTOBER 2012
FINDING NORTH
PRINGLE, PETER
Forty-nine million people--including one in four children--go hungry in the U.S every day, despite the country's
having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all. The documentary Finding North examines this
issue by interweaving the stories of three people who are struggling with food insecurity with insights from food
experts and activists.
CURRENT AFFAIRS
PUBLICAFFAIRS 288 PAGES
9781610391818
$18.50 TP Original
JANUARY 2013
FIX IT AND FORGET IT PINK COOKBOOK
GOOD, PHYLLIS PELLMAN
A new cookbook of delicious recipes published in support of the Avon Foundation's Breast Cancer Crusade.
COOKING
GOOD BOOKS 348 PAGES
9781561487738
$24.95 TP Original
OCTOBER 2012
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