Delaware Moors

Article about the Delaware Moors in The Pick and Gad of Shullsburg, Wisconsin, December 26, 1895.

The Delaware Moors were a mixed-race group in Delaware and southern New Jersey who descended from free people of color. In Delaware, they were legally classified as African Americans until 1914, when some were reclassified as a separate, non-Black group. Others assimilated into the African-American upper class.

Their descendants predominantly live in southern Kent County and Sussex County in Delaware. Three state-recognized tribes descend from the Delaware Moors, including the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware and the Nanticoke Indian Association in Delaware, as well as an offshoot group in Cumberland County, New Jersey, known as the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation. None are federally recognized.

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