Complex sentence: As a wedding settlement, her parents gave the new couple an African slave known as Susannah and her young mixed-race daughter Elizabeth or Betty Hemings, daughter of an English sea captain John Hemings.
Split into simpler sentences: As a wedding settlement, her parents gave the new couple an African slave known as Susannah and her young mixed-race daughter Elizabeth or Betty Hemings. The girl was the daughter of an English sea captain John Hemings.