Martin R. Delany: A Documentary ReaderRobert S. Levine Univ of North Carolina Press, 20 nov 2003 - 520 pagina's Martin R. Delany (1812-85) has been called the "Father of Black Nationalism," but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolitionist, physician, editor, explorer, politician, army officer, novelist, and political theorist. Despite his enormous influence in the nineteenth century, and his continuing influence on black nationalist thought in the twentieth century, Delany has remained a relatively obscure figure in U.S. culture, generally portrayed as a radical separatist at odds with the more integrationist Frederick Douglass. This pioneering documentary collection offers readers a chance to discover, or rediscover, Delany in all his complexity. Through nearly 100 documents--approximately two-thirds of which have not been reprinted since their initial nineteenth-century publications--it traces the full sweep of his fascinating career. Included are selections from Delany's early journalism, his emigrationist writings of the 1850s, his 1859-62 novel, Blake (one of the first African American novels published in the United States), and his later writings on Reconstruction. Incisive and shrewd, angry and witty, Delany's words influenced key nineteenth-century debates on race and nation, addressing issues that remain pressing in our own time. |
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... fact Rollin presents that alleged remark as a compliment), but in 1862 he complained that Delany “has gone about the same length in favor of black, as the whites have in favor of the doctrine of white superiority.”4 Brown's and ...
... fact Rollin presents that alleged remark as a compliment), but in 1862 he complained that Delany “has gone about the same length in favor of black, as the whites have in favor of the doctrine of white superiority.”4 Brown's and ...
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... fact shared in the inclusive integrationism of Douglass and Brown, particularly during the 1840s and the period of Reconstruction, and he consistently worked with blacks and whites alike in the pursuit of social justice. For a person ...
... fact shared in the inclusive integrationism of Douglass and Brown, particularly during the 1840s and the period of Reconstruction, and he consistently worked with blacks and whites alike in the pursuit of social justice. For a person ...
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... fact, Delany can be refreshingly inconsistent in his beliefs and actions, arguing at one moment for a black nationalism linked to U.S. nationalism, at other moments for a Pan-Africanism that dissolves the importance of the bounded ...
... fact, Delany can be refreshingly inconsistent in his beliefs and actions, arguing at one moment for a black nationalism linked to U.S. nationalism, at other moments for a Pan-Africanism that dissolves the importance of the bounded ...
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... fact is that Delany did make impassioned commitments at particular historical moments, and those commitments changed as the historical circumstances changed. In order to help the reader take the full measure of those commitments and ...
... fact is that Delany did make impassioned commitments at particular historical moments, and those commitments changed as the historical circumstances changed. In order to help the reader take the full measure of those commitments and ...
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... he similarly states that the different countries of Central and South America, and the Caribbean, “are in fact but one country—relatively considered—a part of this, the Western Continent.” Delany can seem deliberately 16 Introduction.
... he similarly states that the different countries of Central and South America, and the Caribbean, “are in fact but one country—relatively considered—a part of this, the Western Continent.” Delany can seem deliberately 16 Introduction.
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The North Star | 69 |
Debating Black Emigration | 181 |
Africa | 315 |
Civil War and Reconstruction | 377 |
The Republic of Liberia | 459 |
Chronology | 487 |
Selected Bibliography | 491 |
Index | 495 |
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