The Montiers: From Enslavement to Paul Robeson and Beyond

The important story of an interracial family that can be traced through multiple generations and into the 21st 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 200 acres of land, giving her an almost unique position in 1...