A review by evamadera1
Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family by Rachel Jamison Webster

1.0

Several parts of this book made me cringe, to put it lightly. I don't even know where to begin with the critiques. First, Webster carelessly combines history, historical fiction, and memoir without taking much care to distinguish between the parts. I could continue the list and could almost forgive that if Webster, a white woman, had taken her head out of her own ass long enough to realize that this story is not about her and that by spending so much time naval gazing she inflicts significant harm on the people she tries to call family. By the end, I was hate reading the book, disgusted at how she made the story all about her.