Morgan Jerkins

Morgan Jerkins is the book’s author. She is a Black American writer whose work focuses on race in America. For this book, she was inspired to research her own genealogical roots, with the larger goal of researching Black American history and migration in general. Jerkins grew up in New Jersey and was raised by her mother. Jerkins’ father is from North Carolina. While researching this book, Jerkins traveled to various locations in the United States that have historical significance in this regard, including Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and California.

Black Americans

By sharing her research on Black history, Jerkins hopes to create a further understanding on the many nuances therein, as well as explicate various communal and ethnic groups. In doing so, Jerkins does not want to create a sense of division between groups of Black Americans, but rather demonstrate the many cultural and...