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Martin R. Delany was the only black officer who received the rank of major during the Civil War. In 1863, after Abraham Lincoln had called for a military draft, the 51-year-old Delany abandoned his dream of starting a new settlement on Africa's West Coast.
Apr 2, 2014 · Abolitionist Martin Robison Delany was both a physician and newspaper editor and became one of the most influential and successful anti-slavery activists of the 19th century.
May 2, 2024 · Martin Delany (born May 6, 1812, Charles Town, Virginia, U.S.—died January 24, 1885, Xenia, Ohio) was an African American abolitionist, physician, and editor in the pre-Civil War period; his espousal of black nationalism and racial pride anticipated expressions of such views a century later.
Mar 3, 2007 · Martin Robison Delany was an African American abolitionist, the first African American Field Officer in the U.S Army, and one of the earliest African Americans to encourage a return to Africa. Delany was born in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia) to a slave father and a free mother.
Feb 9, 2023 · Martin R. Delany was an African American abolitionist, writer, editor, doctor, and politician. Born in Charles Town in what is now West Virginia, he was the first Black field officer in the United States Army, serving as a major during and after the American Civil War (1861–1865), and was among the first Black nationalists.
Jan 22, 2019 · For decades, Martin Delany was globally recognized as one of the nation’s foremost African-American spokesmen and activists. Yet with one pivotal political decision, he eventually wrecked his own career and doomed himself to historical oblivion.
Mar 23, 2023 · Martin Robison Delany (b. 1812–d. 1885) was an African American writer, editor, physician, politician, soldier, and theorist of race, emigration, and Black nationalism. Delany was born free in present-day West Virginia to a free mother and an enslaved father.
Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885) was an American abolitionist, journalist, physician, military officer and writer who was arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. Delany is credited with the Pan-African slogan of "Africa for Africans."
Martin Robison Delany was an African American abolitionist, the first African American Field Officer in the U.S Army, and one of the earliest African Americans to encourage a return to Africa.
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Martin R. Delany was for many years a vigorous and effective black leader and thinker. His analysis of the prospects for African Americans in the United States led him to become a founder of black nationalism and advocate of emigration, eventually focusing on a return to Africa.
