{"product_id":"martin-r-delanys-civil-war-and-reconstruction-a-primary-source-reader-paperback","title":"Martin R. Delany's Civil War and Reconstruction: A Primary Source Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTunde Adeleke\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMilitant? Uncompromising? Pragmatic? Utilitarian? Accommodating? Conservative? To engage Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) is to wrestle with almost all the complexities and paradoxes of nineteenth-century black leadership in one public intellectual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter his previous book on Delany, senior historian Tunde Adeleke has compiled here letters, speeches, contemporary nineteenth-century newspaper articles, and reports written by and about Delany. These vital primary sources cover his Civil War and Reconstruction career in South Carolina and include key critical reactions to Delany's ideas and writings from his contemporaries. There are over ninety documents, the vast majority not previously published.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelany remains the subject of conflicting and confusing interpretations. Adeleke indicates that Delany actually manifested complex dispositions. He presaged manifestations of the strands of both protest and compromise that would define the early twentieth-century world of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn African American abolitionist and journalist, Delany advocated for black nationalism, one of the first to do so. After working alongside Frederick Douglass to publish the North Star in the 1840s, Delany looked into establishing a settlement in West Africa. Yet during the Civil War, he served as the first African American field grade officer in the Union Army. Then he labored for the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina. Delany even ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor as a Republican and later defected to the Democrats. These documents will prove an indispensable call and response to an unparalleled intellectual life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTunde Adeleke\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history and director of the African and African American Studies Program at Iowa State University. His books include the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eUnAfrican Americans: Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalists and the Civilizing Mission\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Case against Afrocentrism\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWithout Regard to Race: The Other Martin R. Delany\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe latter two published by University Press of Mississippi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 262\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42716801925183,"sku":"9781496826640","price":75.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/80806586104e478ebe9c3488d3a15de8.webp?v=1765076236","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/martin-r-delanys-civil-war-and-reconstruction-a-primary-source-reader-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}