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(MILITARY—CIVIL WAR.)
ROLLIN, FRANK A.
Life and Public
Services of Martin R. Delany, Sub
Assistant Commissioner Bureau Relief
of Refugees.
367, [vi], pages. 8vo, origi-
nal cloth; some mottling, still a tight copy,
internally clean.
Boston: Lee and Sheppard, 1868
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION OF A SCARCE BOOK
.
Martin
Robinson Delany, (1812-1885) was a tremen-
dously complex and talented man. Editor,
author, physician, explorer, abolitionist and
pan-Africanist, in 1858-1859, Delany was
part of an ambitious colonization plan to
explore the Niger Valley in Africa to find suit-
able land to settle American slaves and
freedmen. The exploratory expedition was
made, and agreements with local Abeokuta
chiefs as well. However Civil War at home,
and a reluctant British Parliament essentially
quashed the project.