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Catherine A. Richards. 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. [1][2] Delany is credited with the Pan-African slogan of "Africa for Africans." [3] Born as a free person of color in Charles ...
Blake; or The Huts of America: A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States, and Cuba is a novel by Martin Delany, initially published in two parts: The first in 1859 by The Anglo-African, and the second, during the earlier part of the American Civil War, in 1861-62 by the Weekly Anglo-African Magazine. [1]
The Mystery (or the Pittsburgh Mystery) was a Pennsylvanian African American newspaper founded in 1843 by Martin Delany, a black activist and physician. It was a paper centered on the abolitionist movement, and attempted to foster feelings of pride in black life and culture, including black spiritual life. Delany left the paper in 1847 to work ...
Sharp Delany’s maternal great-grandfather was the noted Dublin Quaker Anthony Sharp, for whom Sharp was named. [11] Sharp Delany’s date of immigration to the United States is uncertain. Among the first records of him in America is his September 7, 1763, marriage to Margaret Robinson in the Trinity Episcopal Church of Philadelphia. [12]
The soldiers were recruited by black abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and Major Martin Robison Delany, M.D., and white abolitionists, including Shaw's parents. Lieutenant J. Appleton, [17] the first white man commissioned in the regiment, posted a notice in the Boston Journal. [2]
There, aided by a network including freedman physician Martin Robinson Delany and the Reverend Lewis Woodson, they offered food, shelter, and directions onward to safety. [2] In 1864, because of Frances' poor health, the family moved to Chatham, Ontario, Canada, returning to the US in 1870. [4]
Sarah Louise " Sadie " Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer. She was the subject, along with her younger sister Bessie, of the oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Sadie was the first African American to teach ...
The Delany Sisters Book of Everyday Wisdom. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a 1993 New York Times bestselling book that was compiled by Amy Hill Hearth and contains the oral history of Sarah "Sadie" L. Delany and A. Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, two civil rights pioneers who were born in the late 19th century to a former slave.