Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader by Robert S. Levine (PDF)

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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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⭐This book chronicled the life of Martin Delany (1812-1885), one of the first three African-Americans to be admitted into Harvard Medical School, the first African-American field Officer in the American Civil War, the original “Black Nationalist”, co-author of the North Star Newspaper. Martin Delany was a friend and contemporary to Fredrick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, and John Brown. The book also detailed how his emigration plans included taking African-Americans back to Africa, purchasing land for growing cotton in the Niger Valley, and competing with American slave cotton.

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