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Photographer: Unknown
Taken: Circa 1865
Caption: Major Martin Robinson Delany
Additional Description: An outspoken abolitionist who cofounded the North Star newspaper with Frederick Douglass in 1848, Pittsburgh’s Martin Delany in the 1850s became the nation’s leading advocate of black Americans emigration back to Africa. The highest ranking African-American officer during the American Civil War, Delany in 1879 published his last major work, Principia of Ethnology: The Origin of Races and Color, in which he extolled the virtues of the black race and their contributions to civilization.
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG. 95.46
Submitted: July 26, 2011, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p164180
File Size: 0.067 Megabytes

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