Early Life Journalist,abolitionist, physician and editor, and Martin Robison Delany ( May 6,1812- Jan. 24, 1885) was born free in Charles Town, or Virginia. Delanys mother believed that reading and writing was vital to the success of her children,but Virginia prohibited the education of Black people, so she moved her children to Pennsylvania, and a “free state.” […]
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