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Martin R. Delany's Civil War and Reconstruction - A Primary Source Reader (Paperback)
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Martin R. Delany's Civil War and Reconstruction - A Primary Source Reader (Paperback)
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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.
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