Search For A Place: Black Separatism and Africa, 1860

by Martin R. Delany, Robert Campbell (Contributor)

First edition. A near fine copy in a good dust jacket. Dust spotting to the edges of the book's page block. The dust jacket's spine is darkened. Rubs to its spine tips and corners. Dust soiling to the panels. The dust jacket has some overall wrinkling to the panels.

250 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1969

About the author

Martin Robinson Delany was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, soldier, writer and proponent of black nationalism. Delany was born in Charles Town, Virginia and raised and in Chambersburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In 1850, Delany was among the first three black students admitted to Harvard Medical School, from which they were dismissed weeks after their admission due to student protests. Delany traveled throughout the South in 1839 to observe slavery there, and in 1847 started working with Frederick Douglass to publish North Star, an anti-slavery newspaper.

At the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Delany returned to the United States after living in Canada and visiting Liberia. By 1863, Delany was recruiting blacks for the United States Colored Troops. In 1865, Delany became the first African-American field grade officer in the United States Army, having been commissioned as a major. After the American Civil War, Delany settled in South Carolina and pursued a political career before his death in 1885 as a member of both the Republican and Democratic parties.