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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... utter incredulity (after overhearing a conversation with one of my colleagues): “I can't believe he's never heard of Martin Delany!” Martin R. Delany This page intentionally left blank Introduction martin x Acknowledgments.
... utter incredulity (after overhearing a conversation with one of my colleagues): “I can't believe he's never heard of Martin Delany!” Martin R. Delany This page intentionally left blank Introduction martin x Acknowledgments.
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... never reject “their” country, no matter how often that country rejected them. It is worth keeping in mind that Delany's “rejection” of the United States during the 1850s came at a time when the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision ...
... never reject “their” country, no matter how often that country rejected them. It is worth keeping in mind that Delany's “rejection” of the United States during the 1850s came at a time when the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision ...
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... never a full rejection and was always couched in terms of sorrow (and anger), occurred at particular historical moments when particular formations of American nationality (such as the antebellum formation that regarded blacks as little ...
... never a full rejection and was always couched in terms of sorrow (and anger), occurred at particular historical moments when particular formations of American nationality (such as the antebellum formation that regarded blacks as little ...
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... never fully adopted a moral-suasionist position. Unlike Douglass, he regularly advocated black violence as a legitimate response to white violence. Delany became increasingly frustrated with Douglass's equanimity (and claims to black ...
... never fully adopted a moral-suasionist position. Unlike Douglass, he regularly advocated black violence as a legitimate response to white violence. Delany became increasingly frustrated with Douglass's equanimity (and claims to black ...
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... never going to allow blacks to become an essential part of the ruling element. In a career characterized by an improvisatory politics of black nationalism and uplift, Delany in the late 1870s reconsidered the possibility of African ...
... never going to allow blacks to become an essential part of the ruling element. In a career characterized by an improvisatory politics of black nationalism and uplift, Delany in the late 1870s reconsidered the possibility of African ...
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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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