Martin R Delany Selected Writings

Author : Martin R. Delany
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781770488946

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Martin R. Delany: Selected Writings by Martin R. Delany Pdf

One of the most powerful and provocative voices to emerge from the social and political unrest preceding the Civil War, the abolitionist and political activist Delany is today considered to have been among the earliest black nationalists. This volume offers a concise introduction to Delany’s extraordinary career: included in full is the rousing separatist oration “Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent,” followed by a substantial selection from Delany’s sole published novel, Blake, often hailed as one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century American literature. The volume concludes with an epistolary debate between Delany and Frederick Douglass, situating Delany’s ideas in relation to those of Douglass and of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Author : Martin Robison Delany
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080785431X

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Martin R. Delany by Martin Robison Delany Pdf

This is the first comprehensive collection of writings by Martin Delany, one of the nineteenth century's most influential African American leaders. Levine presents nearly 100 documents, two-thirds of which have not been reprinted since their initial publications.

Author : Martin Robison Delany
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0933121504

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The Origin of Races and Color by Martin Robison Delany Pdf

Of the books authored by Martin R. Delany (1812-1885), The Origin of Races and Color is perhaps the most obscure. Out-of-print until now, it has been available to the public only through select libraries. At the time of its publication in 1879, this valuable resource presented a bold challenge to racist views of African inferiority. Delany wrote in opposition to a developing oppressive intellectualism that used Darwin's thesis, "the survival of the fittest," to support its demented theories of Black inferiority. Skillfully blending biblical history, archaeology and anthropology, Delany offered evidence to the "serious inquirer" suggesting the first humans were African, and that these Africans were ". . . builders of the pyramids, sculptors of the sphinxes, and original god-kings. . . ." With such radical assertions, Delany advanced a model of ancient history that contradicted the very foundation of intellectual racism. He believed knowledge of one's past was essential, and that it could provide Black people with the regenerative force necessary to inspire their self-improvement. Were he alive today, Delany would certainly feel at home with the present generation of Africancentrists, especially since he developed and articulated so many of their arguments more than a century ago.

Author : Martin R. Delany
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780674088726

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Blake; Or, The Huts of America by Martin R. Delany Pdf

Martin R. Delany’s Blake (c. 1860) tells the story of Henry Blake’s escape from a southern plantation and his travels in the U.S., Canada, Africa, and Cuba on a mission to unite blacks of the Atlantic region in the struggle for freedom. Jerome McGann’s edition offers the first correct printing of the work and an authoritative introduction.

Author : Tunde Adeleke
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496826657

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Martin R. Delany's Civil War and Reconstruction by Tunde Adeleke Pdf

Militant? Uncompromising? Pragmatic? Utilitarian? Accommodating? Conservative? To engage Martin Robison Delany (1812–1885) is to wrestle with almost all the complexities and paradoxes of nineteenth-century black leadership in one public intellectual. After his previous book on Delany, senior historian Tunde Adeleke has compiled here letters, speeches, contemporary nineteenth-century newspaper articles, and reports written by and about Delany. These vital primary sources cover his Civil War and Reconstruction career in South Carolina and include key critical reactions to Delany’s ideas and writings from his contemporaries. There are over ninety documents, the vast majority not previously published. Delany remains the subject of conflicting and confusing interpretations. Adeleke indicates that Delany actually manifested complex dispositions. He presaged manifestations of the strands of both protest and compromise that would define the early twentieth-century world of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. An African American abolitionist and journalist, Delany advocated for black nationalism, one of the first to do so. After working alongside Frederick Douglass to publish the North Star in the 1840s, Delany looked into establishing a settlement in West Africa. Yet during the Civil War, he served as the first African American field grade officer in the Union Army. Then he labored for the Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina. Delany even ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor as a Republican and later defected to the Democrats. These documents will prove an indispensable call and response to an unparalleled intellectual life.

Author : Robert S. Levine
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807862916

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Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity by Robert S. Levine Pdf

The differences between Frederick Douglass 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 Douglass'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, Douglass 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.

Author : Frank A. Rollin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1717258360

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Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany by Frank A. Rollin Pdf

At the close of every revolution in a country, there is observed an effort for the gradual and general expulsion of all that is effete, or tends to retard progress; and as the nation comes forth from its purification with its existence renewed and invigorated, a better and higher civilization is promised. Before entering upon such an effort, it is usual to compute the aid rendered in the past struggle for national existence, and the present status of the auxiliaries in connection with it. In this manner, as the sullen roar of battle ceases, as the war cloud fades out from our sky, we are enabled to look more soberly upon the stupendous revolution, its causes and teachings, and to consider the men and new measures developed through its agency, the material with which the country is to be reconstructed. In reviewing the history of the late civil war, it will be found, as in former revolutions, that those who were able to master its magnitude were men who, prior to the occasion, were almost wholly unknown, or claimed but a local reputation.

Author : Martin Robison Delany
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Black race
ISBN : IND:30000065070009

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Principia of Ethnology by Martin Robison Delany Pdf

Author : Farah Jasmine Griffin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393355789

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In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays by Farah Jasmine Griffin Pdf

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions Lively, insightful writings on Black music, feminism, literature, and events from a “masterful critic and master teacher” (Walton Muyumba, Boston Globe). In Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings together the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin’s rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the crises of Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19, and the Black artists she esteems. She moves from evoking the haunting strength of Odetta and the rise of soprano popular singers in the 1970s to the forging of a Black women’s literary renaissance and the politics of Malcolm X through the lens of Black feminism. She reflects on pivotal moments in recent American history—including the banning of Toni Morrison’s Beloved—and celebrates the intellectuals, artists, and personal relationships that have shaped her identity and her work. Featuring new and unpublished essays along with ones first appearing in outlets such as the New York Times and NPR, In Search of a Beautiful Freedom is a captivating collection that celebrates the work of “one of the few great intellectuals in our time” (Cornel West).

Author : Tunde Adeleke
Publisher : University of South Carolina Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1643361848

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In the Service of God and Humanity: Conscience, Reason, and the Mind of Martin R. Delany by Tunde Adeleke Pdf

Martin R. Delany (1812-1885) was one of the leading and most influential Black activists and nationalists in American history. His ideas have inspired generations of activists and movements, including Booker T. Washington in the late nineteenth century, Marcus Garvey in the early 1920s, Malcolm X and Black Power in 1960s, and even today's Black Lives Matter. Extant scholarship on Delany has focused largely on his Black nationalist and Pan-Africanist ideas. Tunde Adeleke argues that there is so much more about Delany to appreciate. In the Service of God and Humanity reveals and analyzes Delany's contributions to debates and discourses about strategies for elevating Black people and improving race relations in the nineteenth century. Adeleke examines Delany's view of Blacks as Americans who deserved the same rights and privileges accorded Whites. While he spent the greater part of his life pursuing racial equality, his vision for America was much broader. Adeleke argues that Delany was a quintessential humanist who envisioned a social order in which everyone, regardless of race, felt validated and empowered. Through close readings of the discourse of Delany's humanist visions and aspirations, Adeleke illuminates many crucial but undervalued aspects of his thought. He discusses the strategies Delany espoused in his quest to universalize America's most cherished of values--life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--and highlights his ideological contributions to the internal struggles to reform America. The breadth and versatility of Delany's thought become more evident when analyzed within the context of his American-centered aspirations. In the Service of God and Humanity reveals a complex man whose ideas straddled many complicated social, political, and cultural spaces, and whose voice continues to speak to America today.

Author : Bruce A. Harvey
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804740461

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American Geographics by Bruce A. Harvey Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Harvey proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood without considering how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa.

Author : Bernhard Klein,Gesa Mackenthun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135940461

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Sea Changes by Bernhard Klein,Gesa Mackenthun Pdf

The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea Changes re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of the role of the sea: not merely as a passage from one country to the next, but a historical site deserving close study.

Author : Martin R. Delany
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752370249

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Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party by Martin R. Delany Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party by Martin R. Delany

Author : Martin Robison Delany
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0933121423

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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States by Martin Robison Delany Pdf

Martin Robinson Delany was the quintessential nineteenth century activist. He used his talents to live a full life as a physician, army officer, author, politician, journalist, abolitionist, and pioneer Black nationalist. Among his wirting The Condition Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States is often considered his seminal and most controversial work. It was first published in 1852, a time of intense conflict between proslavery and antislavery forces. Delany used The Condition, Elevation, Emigration to analyze this conflict and its probable solution. Crafting a skillful argument, he attacked slavery and the subjugation of Black people.He recorded their achievements in business, agriculture, literature, the military, and other professions. Concluding that Blacks would never be allowed to coexist with whites, Delany completed his analysis by suggesting possible locations for Black emigration.

Author : James T. Campbell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440649417

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Middle Passages by James T. Campbell Pdf

Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the "middle passage," but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans traveling in the opposite direction. In Middle Passages, award-winning historian James T. Campbell vividly recounts more than two centuries of African American journeys to Africa, including the experiences of such extraordinary figures as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, and Maya Angelou. A truly groundbreaking work, Middle Passages offers a unique perspective on African Americans' ever-evolving relationship with their ancestral homeland, as well as their complex, often painful relationship with the United States.