Chapter I: Front Matter

LIFE OF MARTIN R. DELANY.

LIFE
AND
PUBLIC SERVICES
OF
MARTIN R. DELANY,

SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER BUREAU RELIEF OF REFUGEES,
FREEDMEN, AND OF ABANDONED LANDS, AND LATE
MAJOR 104TH U. S. COLORED TROOPS.

BY
FRANK A. ROLLIN.

_----“et niger arma Memnonis.”_

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD.
1883.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
FRANK A. ROLLIN,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court
of the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,
19 Spring Lane.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

Introduction 7

I. Genealogy 13

II. Early Education 30

III. Studying North 38

IV. Moral Efforts 43

V. Editorial Career 48

VI. Practising Medicine 68

VII. Fugitive Slave Act 73

VIII. A Hiatus 77

IX. Canada.--Captain John Brown 83

X. Canada Convention.--Harper’s Ferry 91

XI. In Europe 96

XII. The International Statistical Congress and Lord Brougham 99

XIII. Return to America 134

XIV. Corps d’Afrique 141

XV. A Step towards the Service 145

XVI. Recruiting as it was 151

XVII. Changing Position 155

XVIII. Private Council at Washington 162

XIX. The Council-Chamber.--President Lincoln 166

XX. The Gold Leaf 176

XXI. In the Field 181

XXII. At Charleston and Fort Sumter 189

XXIII. Armée d’Afrique 200

XXIV. The National Calamity 203

XXV. Camp of Instruction 209

XXVI. Extraordinary Messages 214

XXVII. News from Richmond 222

XXVIII. A New Field 227

XXIX. General Sickles 245

XXX. Restoring Domestic Relations 254

XXXI. General Robert K. Scott 259

XXXII. The Planters and the Freedmen’s Bureau 269

XXXIII. Domestic Economy 272

XXXIV. Civil Affairs.--President Johnson 277

XXXV. Educational Interests 285

XXXVI. Conclusion 292

APPENDIX.

Political Writings 303

African Explorations 306

Reflections on the War 309

The International Policy of the World towards the African Race 313

Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent 327