  An old diary throws him a curve  Reporting from Orange, Va.
On the 19th page of the diary, I saw it.   I clasped the back of
my head in disbelief.            What was this? Sold?
What would my family think?   I wasn't as certain about my
parents.      And there's little doubt our name came from
Edward.        It was rare for an African to insist on keeping
his own name in the New World. Most were listed on arrival by a
Portuguese or Spanish first name, followed by the word "Negro"
or the country of origin.  "Because the name 'Mozingo' is not an
'Angola' or 'Kongo' or 'Negro,' but is an actual personal name,
suggests to us he was a noble and literate," Heywood said.  "You
and all the other Mozingos are fortunate that he was literate
and kept his name."  We may have been fortunate, but as a whole
we weren't particularly grateful.  Tom Mozingo, 68 and retired
to central Florida, is the elder statesman of Mozingo genealogy.
He braces relatives who ask him about the name. "If I tell you
the truth, can yo