Martin R. Delany: A Documentary ReaderRobert S. Levine Univ of North Carolina Press, 20.11.2003 - 520 sivua 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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... Citizens of Xenia 389 Monument to President Lincoln: Two Documents 392 Prospects of the Freedmen of Hilton Head 396 Triple Alliance 401 Letter to the Colored Delegation, 22 February 1866 403 Letter to Andrew Johnson, 25 July 1866 406 ...
... Citizens of Xenia 389 Monument to President Lincoln: Two Documents 392 Prospects of the Freedmen of Hilton Head 396 Triple Alliance 401 Letter to the Colored Delegation, 22 February 1866 403 Letter to Andrew Johnson, 25 July 1866 406 ...
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... Citizens of Xenia,” and “Politics on Edisto Island”). Like many black activists of the nineteenth century, Delany worked in various genres (letters, essays, speeches, fiction) and published in a wide range of forums (newspapers, books ...
... Citizens of Xenia,” and “Politics on Edisto Island”). Like many black activists of the nineteenth century, Delany worked in various genres (letters, essays, speeches, fiction) and published in a wide range of forums (newspapers, books ...
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... citizens; and the issue of 3 July 1841 listed Delany as among those calling for a black state convention in Pennsylvania (noting that Delany was the secretary of the committee organizing the convention).2 Meanwhile, even as he was ...
... citizens; and the issue of 3 July 1841 listed Delany as among those calling for a black state convention in Pennsylvania (noting that Delany was the secretary of the committee organizing the convention).2 Meanwhile, even as he was ...
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... citizens, it is giving us more than we claim; it is a tacit acknowledgement, that we are naturally superior to the rest of mankind, and, therefore, are much more susceptible than they. With this cursory view of the subject, then, all ...
... citizens, it is giving us more than we claim; it is a tacit acknowledgement, that we are naturally superior to the rest of mankind, and, therefore, are much more susceptible than they. With this cursory view of the subject, then, all ...
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... citizens, are made the degraded vassals of the most insufferable servility, more intolerable than death itself. Spurned the right of election as representatives, and peerage as jurors, denied and robbed of the elective franchise and ...
... citizens, are made the degraded vassals of the most insufferable servility, more intolerable than death itself. Spurned the right of election as representatives, and peerage as jurors, denied and robbed of the elective franchise and ...
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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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