{"id":2749,"date":"2019-04-17T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldsite.coloredconventions.org\/emigration\/martin-delany-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T19:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T00:23:03","slug":"convention-role","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oldsite.coloredconventions.org\/emigration-debate\/martin-delany\/convention-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Delany&#8217;s Role in the Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; specialty=&#8221;off&#8221; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.21.1&#8243; module_class=&#8221;page-header&#8221; z_index_tablet=&#8221;500&#8243; inner_width=&#8221;auto&#8221; inner_max_width=&#8221;1080px&#8221;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Delaney&#8217;s Role in the Convention (Title)&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.21.1&#8243; z_index_tablet=&#8221;500&#8243; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3> TO STAY OR TO GO?: THE NATIONAL EMIGRATION CONVENTION OF 1854<\/h3>\n<h1>DELANY&#8217;S ROLE IN THE CONVENTION<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.6&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>\nMartin Delany was active at the 1854 National Convention on Emigration. Not only was he the leader of the convention, but he was also a representative delegate from Pennsylvania, a member of the Committee on Permanent Officers, the Chair of the Business Committee, and a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. He even found time to help draft \u201cThe Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent\u201d\u2014a speech he delivered at the convention. As important and as telling as his involvement at the convention is, Delany\u2019s contributions to the <em>Provincial Freeman<\/em>\u2014a Toronto-based abolitionist paper\u2014are also quite telling of his desire to promote emigration if slaves were not to be freed and rights for free African Americans could not be had in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.106&#8243; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/oldsite.coloredconventions.org\/emigration\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/02\/f6c7b75251bfbff845d805dbc737a44a.jpg&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221; prev_background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; next_background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; inner_width=&#8221;auto&#8221; inner_max_width=&#8221;1080px&#8221;][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;on&#8221; gutter_width=&#8221;1&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0.77)&#8221; 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In the issue, Martin Delany wrote a column titled \u201cThe Emigration Convention,\u201d justifying the need for a convention on emigration, as well as, the need for African Americans to emigrate out of the United States. \u201cWe say to the slave,\u201d wrote Delany as a voice of the convention, \u201cYou have a right to your freedom and to every other privilege connected with it, and if you cannot secure these in Virginia or Alabama, by all means make your escape\u2026We say, further, to the free colored people of the States, wherever they may be, You are under no necessity or obligation to remain where you are.\u201d Delany directed this statement to slaves in the southern United States as well as to free African Americans \u201cwherever they may be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The power of print would not have been lost on Delany, as he ran <em>The Mystery<\/em> earlier in his life and edited the <em>North Star<\/em> with Frederick Douglass. Addressing a wide audience, he understood the scope newspapers like the <em>Provincial Freeman<\/em> had in reaching numerous individuals of varying literacy skills. He anticipated the newspaper will reach slaves in the South, as well as, free African Americans in unknown yet still oppressive locales. Emigration was important for Delany, and completely necessary in his opinion, since the United States would not outlaw slavery. Additionally, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allowed Southerners and slave catchers to capture runaway slaves in the North and also kidnap free African Americans. In other words, Delany\u2019s strong call for emigration was a response to the North\u2019s inaction and to the tightened grip on African Americans.<\/p>\n<h3>Credits<\/h3>\n<p>Written by Nick Palombo. Taught by Benjamin Fagan, Auburn University, Fall 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by Sarah Patterson.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> TO STAY OR TO GO?: THE NATIONAL EMIGRATION CONVENTION OF 1854 DELANY&#8217;S ROLE IN THE CONVENTION Martin Delany was active at the 1854 National Convention on Emigration. 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