The very important story of an interracial family that can be traced through multiple generations and into the 20th century.
The African-American Montier family traces its roots to the British-born Caucasian son of Philadelphia's first mayor, Richard Morrey, who had a relationship with Cremona, a young woman who had been enslaved by the Morrey family, resulting in five mixed-race children. Before his death, Richard would pass to Cremona...
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