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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... hope that this volume comes close to fulfilling her expectations. Sian Hunter, my wonderfully supportive, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable editor at the University of North Carolina Press, continues to be everything I could hope for in ...
... hope that this volume comes close to fulfilling her expectations. Sian Hunter, my wonderfully supportive, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable editor at the University of North Carolina Press, continues to be everything I could hope for in ...
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... hope is “to bring about a union of the two races, white and black, (by black I mean all colored people,) in one common interest in the State.” What had Delany discovered between the mid-1870s and 1879 that had suddenly convinced him ...
... hope is “to bring about a union of the two races, white and black, (by black I mean all colored people,) in one common interest in the State.” What had Delany discovered between the mid-1870s and 1879 that had suddenly convinced him ...
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... hope that educated and talented African American leaders would bring it into being. In this light it could be argued that Delany never really disentangled himself from U.S. nationalism, for there was something imperialistic about his ...
... hope that educated and talented African American leaders would bring it into being. In this light it could be argued that Delany never really disentangled himself from U.S. nationalism, for there was something imperialistic about his ...
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... hope is largely developed, and consequently, they usually stand still— hope in God, and really expect Him to do that for them, which it is necessary they should themselves.”21 One of the slaves in an early Introduction 17.
... hope is largely developed, and consequently, they usually stand still— hope in God, and really expect Him to do that for them, which it is necessary they should themselves.”21 One of the slaves in an early Introduction 17.
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... hope for that patriot: [T]he American colored patriot lives but to be despised, feared and hated, accordingly as his talents may place him in the community—moving amidst the masses, he passes unobserved, and at last goes down to the ...
... hope for that patriot: [T]he American colored patriot lives but to be despised, feared and hated, accordingly as his talents may place him in the community—moving amidst the masses, he passes unobserved, and at last goes down to the ...
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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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