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Martin R. Delany

A Documentary Reader

By: Martin Robison Delany

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Martin R. Delany

A Documentary Reader

By: Martin Robison Delany

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.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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080785431X

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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

By: Martin Robison Delany

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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

By: Martin Robison Delany

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.

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Black Classic Press

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0933121423

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Martin R. Delany

A Documentary Reader

By: Martin Robison Delany

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A Documentary Reader

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Blake; or, The Huts of America

A Corrected Edition

By: Martin R. Delany

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Blake; or, The Huts of America

A Corrected Edition

By: Martin R. Delany

Martin R. Delany’s Blake (1859, 1861–1862) is one of the most important African American—and indeed American—works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake’s escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is to unite the black populations of the American Atlantic regions, both free and slave, in the struggle for freedom, whether through insurrection or through emigration and the creation of an independent black state. Blake is a rhetorical masterpiece, all the more strange and mysterious for remaining incomplete, breaking off before its final scene. This edition of Blake, prepared by textual scholar Jerome McGann, offers the first correct printing of the work in book form. It establishes an accurate text, supplies contextual notes and commentaries, and presents an authoritative account of the work’s composition and publication history. In a lively introduction, McGann argues that Delany employs the resources of fiction to develop a critical account of the interconnected structure of racist power as it operated throughout the American Atlantic. He likens Blake to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, in its willful determination to transform a living and terrible present. Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition will be used in undergraduate and graduate classes on the history of African American fiction, on the history of the American novel, and on black cultural studies. General readers will welcome as well the first reliable edition of Delany’s fiction.

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Harvard University Press

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0674088727

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9780674088726

Blake

or; The Huts of America

By: Martin R. Delany

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Blake

or; The Huts of America

By: Martin R. Delany

Delaney's hero is a West Indian slave who travels throughout the South advocating revolution, and later becomes the general of a black insurrectory fore in Cuba. Blake hopes that, with rebellion in Cuba and the expulsion of all Americans, Cuba's model as a self-governed black state will ultimately precipitate the downfall of slavery in the United States. Focusing on the political and social issues of the 1850s – slavery as an institution, Cuba as the prime interest of Southern expansionists, the practicality of militant slave revolution, and the possibilities of collective action – Blake is one of the most revealing novels of its period.

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Beacon Press

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0807096717

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9780807096710

The Conditon, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the ...

By: Martin Robinson Delany

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The Conditon, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the ...

By: Martin Robinson Delany

Reproduction of the original: The Conditon, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the ... by Martin Robinson Delany

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752310065

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9783752310061

Apropos of Africa

Sentiments of Negro American Leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s

By: Martin Kilson,A.Cromwell Hill

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Apropos of Africa

Sentiments of Negro American Leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s

By: Martin Kilson,A.Cromwell Hill

First published in 1969. This is part of a series that comprises reprints as well as original works on various aspects of African life- history, institutions, culture, political and social thought, and eminent African personalities. As 'Africana' in the title indicates, the term 'African' is used liberally and includes persons of African descent in the New World whose life and work are clearly and deeply identified with Africa. The reprints are in most part landmarks of African writing and each will contain a new introduction placing the author's life, ideas and activities in perspective.

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Routledge

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1136253025

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The Origin of Races and Color

By: Martin Robison Delany

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The Origin of Races and Color

By: Martin Robison Delany

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.

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Black Classic Press

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0933121504

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By: Martin Robison Delany

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The Mind of Frederick Douglass

By: Waldo E. Martin Jr.

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The Mind of Frederick Douglass

By: Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American of the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former slave turned abolitionist orator, newspaper editor, social reformer, race leader, and Republican party advocate has inspired many biographies over the years. This, however, is the first full-scale study of the origins, contours, development, and significance of Douglass's thought. Brilliant and to a large degree self-taught, Douglass personified intellectual activism; he possessed a sincere concern for the uses and consequences of ideas. Both his people's struggle for liberation and his individual experiences, which he envisioned as symbolizing that struggle, provided the basis and structure for his intellectual maturation. As a representative American, he internalized and, thus, reflected major currents in the contemporary American mind. As a representative Afro-American, he revealed in his thinking the deep-seated influence of race on Euro-American, Afro-American, or, broadly conceived, American consciousness. He sought to resolve in his thinking the dynamic tension between his identities as a black and as an American. Martin assesses not only how Douglass dealt with this enduring conflict, but also the extent of his success. An inveterate belief in a universal and egalitarian humanism unified Douglass's thought. This grand organizing principle reflected his intellectual roots in the three major traditions of mid-nineteenth-century American thought: Protestant Christianity, the Enlightenment, and romanticism. Together, these influences buttressed his characteristic optimism. Although nineteenth-century Afro-American intellectual history derived its central premises and outlook from concurrent American intellectual history, it offered a searching critique of the latter and its ramifications. How to square America's rhetoric of freedom, equality, and justice with the reality of slavery and racial prejudice was the difficulty that confronted such Afro-American thinkers as Douglass.

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0807864285

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9780807864289

The Writing and Reception of Race First

Marcus Garvey and the Battle for Black History

By: Martin Tony

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The Writing and Reception of Race First

Marcus Garvey and the Battle for Black History

By: Martin Tony

This is Tony Martin's account of the writing of "Race First" the seminal work on Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

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