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03162aam a22005298i 4500 001 48AB5C2CCEC011ED96F4990E3AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240315010227 008 221214s2023 nyu b 000 0ceng 010 $a 2022052722 020 $a 1250827302 020 $a 9781250827302 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a CS71.B22694 $b 2023 082 00 $a 929.20973 $2 23/eng/20230109 100 1 $a Webster, Rachel J., $e author. 245 10 $a Benjamin Banneker and us : $b eleven generations of an American family / $c Rachel Jamison Webster ; with Edith Lee Harris, Robert Lett, Gwen Marable, and Edwin Lee. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2303 264 1 $a New York : $b Henry Holt and Company, $c [2023] 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 30 $a Banneker family. 600 10 $a Banneker, Benjamin, $d 1731-1806 $x Family. 600 00 $a Bana'ka, $d approximately 1670- $x Family. 600 30 $a Lett family. 600 10 $a Webster, Rachel J. $x Family. 650 0 $a African Americans $v Genealogy. 650 0 $a Racially mixed families $z United States. 941 $a 13 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240529010254.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509011838.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409044006.0 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20231003010233.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20230706011654.0 952 $l WCPC115 $d 20230629024013.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230621011050.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230512010300.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230502010429.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230414010339.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230411012714.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230405013430.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20230405010231.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=48AB5C2CCEC011ED96F4990E3AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search