Martin Delany
Delany, Martin Robinson - dəlāˈnē, 1812–85, American black leader, b. Charles Town, Va. (now in West Virginia). The son of free blacks, he attended a black school in Pittsburgh and studied medicine at Harvard. He emphasized the practical aspects of black problems. Taking up the cause of emigration (the return of American blacks to Africa), he was largely Read More...
Delany, Martin Robinson - dəlāˈnē, 1812–85, American black leader, b. Charles Town, Va. (now in West Virginia). The son of free blacks, he attended a black school in Pittsburgh and studied medicine at Harvard. He emphasized the practical aspects of black problems. Taking up the cause of emigration (the return of American blacks to Africa), he was largely responsible for the first National Emigration Convention in 1854 and headed an expedition to the Niger valley. In the Civil War he was an army physician. Later he was in the Freedmen's Bureau, served as a trial judge in Charleston, S.C., and lost (1874) the election for lieutenant governor of South Carolina; he was a stern enemy of corruption. His ideas of race appeared in Principles of Ethnology (1879). See biographies by F. A. Rollin (1868, repr. 1969), D. Sterling (1971), and V. Ullman (1971). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved. |
Martin Delany
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Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
by Robert S. Levine. 314 pgs.
"The fullest and richest direct comparison to date of the literary careers of Frederick Douglas and Martin Delany". David W. Blight, Amherst CollegeThese long-ignored debates have much to offer contemporary students of African American Leadership
The differences between Frederick Douglas and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity. He explores their debates over issues like abolitionism, emigration, and nationalism, illuminating each man's influence on the other's political vision. He also examines Delany and Douglas's debates in relation to their own writings and to the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Though each saw himself as the single best representative of his race, Douglas has been accorded that role by history -- while Delany, according to Levine, has suffered a fate typical of the black separatist: marginalization. In restoring Delany to his place in literary and cultural history, Levine makes possible a fuller understanding of the politics of antebellum African American leadership.
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Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper
by John Ernest. 272 pgs.
An examination of how six prominent African-American writers of the nineteenth century reconfigured a threatening world.
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Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American (Chap. 5 "Conjugal Union")
by Robert Reid-Pharr. 182 pgs.
In Conjugal Union, Robert F. Reid-Pharr argues that during the antebellum period a community of free black northeastern intellectuals sought to establish the stability of a Black American subjectivity by figuring the black body as the necessary antecedent to any intelligible Black American public presence. Reid-Pharr goes on to argue that the fact of the black body's constant and often spectacular display demonstrates an incredible uncertainty as to that body's status. Thus antebellum black intellectuals were always anxious about how a stable relationship between the black community might be maintained. Paying particular attention to Black American novels written before the Civil War, the author shows how the household was utilized by these writers to normalize this relationship of body to community such that a person could enter a household as a white and leave it as a black.
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African Americans and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century (Discussion of Martin Delany begins on p. 75)
by Chris Dixon, Jon L. Wakelyn. 254 pgs.
While much has been written about the antebellum African American interest in emigration to Africa, the equally significant interest in Haitian emigration has been largely overlooked. Although free blacks spurned attempts by the American Colonization Society to "return" them to Africa, during the 1820s, and again during the 1850s and early 1860s, as conditions for African Americans became ever more precarious, thousands of blacks left the U.S. for Haiti searching for civic freedom and economic opportunity in the world's first independent black republic. Such prospects caught the attention of not only the African American leadership but of the black populace as well. In discussing the growing interest in Haitian emigration, Dixon provides ongoing discussions concerning black nationalism as an ideology.
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Are We Men? Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775-1865 , in American Literary History
by Maurice Wallace. 29 pgs.
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African American Authors, 1745-1945: Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Martin Robinson Delany (1812-1885)" begins on p. 101)
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 528 pgs.
There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. The works of dozens of 18th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted; there has been a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance; and several major assessments of 18th and 19th century African American literature have recently been published. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 78 African American writers active between 1745 and 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the critical response to the author, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography concludes the volume.
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Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900 (Chap. 69 "The Moral and Social Aspect of Africa" and Chap. 78 "Advice to Ex-Slaves")
by Philip S. Foner, Robert James Branham. 926 pgs.
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Negro Caravan ("Martin R. Delany (1812-1885)" begins on p. 151)
by Sterling A. Brown, Arthur P. Davis, Ulysses Lee. 1082 pgs.
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The Black Abolitionist Papers (Includes speeches made by Martin Delany)
by C. Peter Ripley. 612 pgs.
This set is a three volume set about slavery and its history; anti-slavery movements; abolitionists; this set starts from the year 1830 and the last volume ends in the year 1865.The Black Abolitionist Papers Project began in 1976 with the mission to collect and publish the documentary record of black Americans involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States from 1830 to 1865. - From the Editorial note.
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African Americans and U.S. Policy toward Africa, 1850-1924: In Defense of Black Nationality (Chap. 1 "The Roots of Destiny")
by Elliott P. Skinner. 558 pgs.
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Race, Citizenship and Law in American Literature (Discussion of Martin Delany begins on p. 135)
by Gregg D. Crane. 299 pgs.
Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity and race and justice within American law and literature in this study. He recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law in accord with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression are evil. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, and a range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this original book will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature.
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