Is There a Need to Reference to Ethnicity?

There could be great numbers of people of african descent who would disappear to posterity. We only know about ordinary people when they have a moment of encounter with the powerful, whether that is for good or ill. They are sometimes visible by their ethnicity, and sometimes they are not. And sometimes they are referred to by an ethmic descriptor, and often they aren't. It's other evidence that leads us that way. There is no reference to ethnicity when he is baptized as an adult at the age of h late twenties. He has this name that's spelled in different ways. Then his first son is apprenticed off, great his daught he doesn't apprentice. His wife dies