Primary Works

The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States, 1852. NY: Arno Press, 1968. E185 .D33

Search for a place; Black separatism and Africa, 1860. by M. R. Delany and Robert Campbell. Introd. by Howard H. Bell. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1969. DT515.2 .S4

Blake; or, The huts of America, a novel, 1859. With an introd. by Floyd J. Miller. Boston: Beacon Press 1970. PS3507.E36 B5

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Austin, Allan D. "The Significance of Martin Robison Delany's Blake, or the Huts of America." DAI 36 (1975): 884A.

Barbour, James. "Nineteenth Century Black Novelists: A Checklist." Minority Voices 3.2 (1980): 27-43.

Bienvenu, Germain J. "The People of Delany's Blake." College Language Association Journal 36.4 (Jun 1993): 406-29.

Crane, Gregg D. "The Lexicon of Rights, Power, and Community in Blake: Martin R. Delany's Dissent from Dred Scott." American Literature 68.3 (Sep 1996): 527-53.

Davidson, Adenike M. "Sweet Land of Liberty: The Black Nation Novel in Early African American Literature." DAI 61.10 (Apr 2001): DA9991079.

- - -. "Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885)." African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 101-07.

Ellison, Curtis W., and E. W. Metcalf, Jr. eds. William Wells Brown and Martin R. Delany: a reference guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978. Z8124.14 .E38

Griffith, Cyril E. The African dream: Martin R. Delany and the emergence of pan-African thought. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1975. E185.97 .D4 G74

Haskett, Norman D. "Afro-American Images of Africa: Four Antebellum Black Authors." Ufahamu 3.1 (1972): 29-40.

Levine, Robert S. Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the politics of representative identity. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997. PS366 .A35 L48

Marx, Jo Ann. "Myth and Meaning in Martin R. Delany's Blake; Or the Huts of America." College Language Association Journal 38.2 (Dec 1994): 183-92.

- - -. "The Language of Liberation in Martin R. Delany's Blake, or the Huts of America." Griot 18.1 (Sprg 1999): 19-26.

Meacham, Gloria H. "Selected Nineteenth Century Interpretations of Organized Slave Resistance: Black Character and Consciousness as Represented in the Fictional Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, and Martin Robinson Delany and Related Historical Sources." DAI 41.8 (Feb 1981): 3583A.

Miller, Ruth, and Peter J. Katopes. "Modern Beginnings: William Wells Brown, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Martin R. Delany, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sutton E. Griggs, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Frank J. Webb." Black American Writers: Bibliographical Essays, I: The Beginnings through the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes. Eds. M. Thomas Inge, Maurice Duke, and Jackson R. Bryer. NY: St. Martin's, 1978. 133-60.

Powell, Timothy. "Postcolonial Theory in an American Context: A Reading of Martin Delany's Blake." The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies. Eds. Khan F. Afzal and Crooks K. Seshadri. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2000. 347-65.

Reid-Pharr, Robert. "Violent Ambiguity: Martin Delany, Bourgeois Sadomasochism, and the Production of a Black National Masculinity." Representing Black Men. Eds. Marcellus Blount and George P. Cunningham. NY: Routledge, 1996. 73-94.

Simson, Rennie. "Christianity: Hypocrisy and Honesty in the Afro-American Novel of the Mid-19th Century." University of Dayton Review 15.3 (Sprg 1982): 11-16.

Sundquist, Eric J. "Slavery, Revolution, and the American Renaissance." The American Renaissance Reconsidered. Eds. Walter B. Michaels and Donald E. Pease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1985. 1-33.

Ullman, Victor. Martin R. Delany: the beginnings of black nationalism. Boston: Beacon P, 1971. E185.97 .D4 U5

Wallace, Maurice. "'Are We Men?': Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775-1865." American Literary History 9.3 (Fall 1997): 396-424.

Whitlow, Roger. "The Revolutionary Black Novels of Martin R. Delany and Sutton Griggs." MELUS 5.3 (1978): 26-36.

Zeugner, John. "A Note on Martin Delany's Blake, and Black Militancy." Phylon 32 (1971): 98-105.

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