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