Approved Pension File for Catharine A. Delany, Widow of Major Martin R. Delany, 104th U.S. Colored Troops Infantry Regiment (WC-320028)

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Approved Pension File for Catharine A. Delany, Widow of Major Martin R. Delany, 104th U.S. Colored Troops Infantry Regiment (WC-320028)

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Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885

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Martin Robinson Delany was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, soldier and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. Delany is credited with the Pan-African slogan of "Africa for Africans." Born as a free person of color in Charles Town, Virginia, now West Virginia (not Charleston, West Virginia) and raised in Chambersburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Delany trained as a physician's assistant. During the cholera epidemics of 1833 and 1854 in Pittsbu...