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First Tucker: A Virginia Family’s 350 Year White and Black Roots
Thelma Williams traces her Hampton family history to Anthony and Isabella, enslaved Africans aboard the first slave voyage and their son William Tucker born in Jamestown. She blends documents, oral histories, and a 300 year old Tucker Cemetery to map how a modern American town recalls its deepest roots.
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Hampton
Thelma Williams
Anthony
Isabella
William
Fort Monroe
Jamestown
Blue Bird Gap
Thelma
William ‘Tucker
America
William Tucker
New York City
Virginia
William Tuckers
Tucker
High Seas
Chesapeake Bay
John Rolfe
John Dorman
Emmanuel
Nat Tucker
Nat Turner
Samuel
Thomas
Tucker Cemetery
Thelrma
Mary Elizabeth Tucker
James William Tucker
Alexander Samuel Tucker
Williams
Colonies