Published in 1868, this biography follows Martin Robison Delany from his free birth in Virginia and early schooling through his years as an abolitionist editor, his medical practice, his response to the Fugitive Slave Act, and his commission as a major of the 104th U.S. Colored Troops. It closes with his work for the Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina.
Written by Frances Rollin under a male pen name, an early life of a pioneering Black nationalist, physician and soldier. Download the free EPUB.