Loren G Kelly

Delaware Moor Racial Epitaphs Loren G Kelly

Writer, Loren G. Kelly, embraces the ultimate quest by researching his maternal bloodline's ancestral roots. Shaking his family tree, he reveals generations connected to life stories of those who went before. He navigates the corridors of American history, including the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War II, and beyond, to discover an unforeseen family secret of his origins. Painting a picture with words, genealogy, history, and poetry, the author guides the reader on a breathtaking journey. Traversing the passageways of time he encounters ancestors like Thomas Carney-Black hero of the American Revolution and Harriett Tubman, conductor on the Underground Railroad. Loren articulates an entertaining narrative of captivating accounts about remarkable relatives and their American legacy. Like a historical detective, he investigates his lineage portraying how his family fled racial hatred in the Antebellum South by leaping from one racial identity into an altogether different one to the freedom land of the North. By accepting a chosen exile, his Delaware Moor ancestors passed as White and crossed the color-line, forfeiting their Black birthright and trading their blackness for whiteness. A mystery of mixed-race in America, hidden for one-hundred and fifty years, this fascinating memoir is a dramatic saga of a daunting struggle by an oppressed people to be truly free.