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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780368603321

Autore

Delany Martin Robison <1812-1885.>

Titolo

Martin R. Delany [[electronic resource] ] : a documentary reader / / edited by Robert S. Levine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003

ISBN

979-88-908743-3-7

0-8078-6256-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (520 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LevineRobert S <1953-> (Robert Steven)

Disciplina

973.7/092

Soggetti

African Americans

African American political activists

African American social reformers

African American abolitionists

Black nationalism - History - 19th century

African Americans - Politics and government - 19th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century

United States Race relations Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-494) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on the Texts; Part I. Pittsburgh, the Mystery, Freemasonry; Part II. The North Star; Part III. Debating Black Emigration; Part IV. Africa; Part V. Civil War and Reconstruction; Part VI. The Republic of Liberia; Chronology; Selected Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of the work of the "Father of Black Nationalism", this title traces the full sweep of Martin R. Delaney's career. It features selections from his early journalism, his emigrationist writing of the 1850's, his 1859-62 novel, "Blake", and his later writings on Reconstruction.