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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... meeting with Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and shortly thereafter receiving a commission as the first black major in the Union army. Following the war, Delany served for three years as an officer at the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina ...
... meeting with Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and shortly thereafter receiving a commission as the first black major in the Union army. Following the war, Delany served for three years as an officer at the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina ...
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... meeting, Delany was the main proponent of Article 46, which was adopted by the group: “The foregoing articles shall not be construed so as in any way to encourage the overthrow of any State Government or of the General Government of the ...
... meeting, Delany was the main proponent of Article 46, which was adopted by the group: “The foregoing articles shall not be construed so as in any way to encourage the overthrow of any State Government or of the General Government of the ...
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... meetings offering advice to the chiefs, he “thought the hint might be taken in countries a long way from Africa” (“The Moral and Social Aspect of Africa”). Although he believed that women had a central role in regenerating the race as ...
... meetings offering advice to the chiefs, he “thought the hint might be taken in countries a long way from Africa” (“The Moral and Social Aspect of Africa”). Although he believed that women had a central role in regenerating the race as ...
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... Meeting at Zion Church,” Charleston Courier, 13 May 1865, p. 2. 16. Delany anticipates the “political” embrace of blackness by the light-complected Emily Garie in Frank J. Webb's novel, The Garies and Their Friends, ed. Robert ReidPharr ...
... Meeting at Zion Church,” Charleston Courier, 13 May 1865, p. 2. 16. Delany anticipates the “political” embrace of blackness by the light-complected Emily Garie in Frank J. Webb's novel, The Garies and Their Friends, ed. Robert ReidPharr ...
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... meeting with John Vashon and others for literary and political discussions. From those discussions emerged the African Education Society, which proclaimed in its constitution “that ignorance is the sole cause of the present degradation ...
... meeting with John Vashon and others for literary and political discussions. From those discussions emerged the African Education Society, which proclaimed in its constitution “that ignorance is the sole cause of the present degradation ...
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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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