E. Railey-Bey is a writer, researcher, and advocate for the restoration of

Indigenous nationality among the people now classified as African

American. His education began in public schools that taught him he was

something other than what his blood carried, and it continued in libraries,

courthouses, and county archives where he learned to read the record

against itself. He did not set out to become a historian. He set out to

answer a question the state had already answered for him, and the answer

he found in the documents was false.