| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.1

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Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany. By Tunde Adeleke. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. xxxiii, 274p. Notes, bibliography, appendices, index. $42.)

Martin Robison Delany was one of the most well-known figures in African American circles during the nineteenth century. Born free in Virginia in 1812, he moved to Pennsylvania as a child. As an adult, his talents and political concerns took him far beyond his medical training and successful practice. A staunch supporter of the abolitionist movement, Delany also edited antislavery newspapers, served as a delegate to state and national black conventions, and published several pamphlets and a serialized novel. He became the first African American to be commissioned as a major and assigned to field command during the Civil War. And after serving with the 104th United States Colored Troops, he moved to South Carolina to represent freedmen and women in Reconstruction politics.

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