Volume 14, Number 5 · March 12, 1970
The Father of American Black Nationalism
By Theodore H. Draper
Dr. Martin Robinson Delany was 'the first major Negro nationalist' and 'the embodiment of Negro separatism,' as recent writers on American Negro history have called him.[1] There had been forerunners and predecessors going back to Paul Cuffee, the half-Negro, half-American Indian ship captain who transported thirty-eight Negroes back to Africa in December 1815. But Delany was the first to give the early movement a full-fledged theoretical basis and to act on it.
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