Every "legitimate” member of Revolutionary War soldier Francis Jones's family lies in a small cemetery near where the Smiths' enslaved maid Harriet gave birth to four daughters, one fathered by Jones's white lawyer grandson, three by the white physician grandson. The four girls grew up with two "mothers”, for Miss Mary Ruffin Smith, spinster sister of the licentious boys, took them into the big house, baptized them, and then guided them to marriage to respectable biracial men.
An intimate and irreverent account of one man's coming of age during World War II. The memoir is drawn from recollections, the author's diaries from the conflicts, daily logs of the three ships upon which he served, and the secret reports of military commanders and other official records.
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