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100 1  Webster, Rachel Jamison,|d1974-|eauthor. 
245 10 Benjamin Banneker and us :|beleven generations of an 
       American family /|cRachel Jamison Webster ; with Edith Lee
       Harris, Robert Lett, Gwen Marable, and Edwin Lee. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bHenry Holt and Company,|c2023. 
300    xiv, 351 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-351). 
520    "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."--|cProvided
       by publisher. 
600 00 Bana'ka,|dapproximately 1670-|xFamily. 
600 10 Banneker, Benjamin,|d1731-1806|xFamily. 
600 10 Webster, Rachel Jamison,|d1974-|xFamily. 
600 30 Banneker family. 
600 30 Lett family. 
650  0 African Americans|vGenealogy. 
650  0 Racially mixed families|zUnited States.