These Ghosts are Family

These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card, 271 pages.
Abel Paisley was a young man, married with children, working on the docks in England, when a container fell on his friend and fellow Jamaican, Solomon. All of the white men working with them, none of whom could tell the two Jamaicans apart believe that it was Abel that they saw crushed to death. Abel decides to take advantage of the situation and leave his responsibilities behind. Citing this as the one time racism worked in his favor, Abel becomes Solomon, leaves his family and moves to New York to begin again.
The story moves back and forth through time, from Jamaica in the early 1800s to present-day New York, following the story of Abel's ancestors, his contemporaries, and his children.