Delany's landmark 1852 treatise surveys the legal and social condition of free Black Americans and concludes that the United States will not extend them the rights of citizenship. From that judgment he builds the era's most influential case for organized Black emigration, examining Central and South America and the Caribbean as destinations for a self-governing Black nationality.
Author: Martin R. Delany · Original publisher: Published by the author, Philadelphia, 1852 (full title ends "…Politically Considered")
