Martin R. Delany (1812-1885), a native Virginian, is a leading African American abolitionist. He is also a writer, editor, doctor, and politician, having worked alongside Frederick Douglass in editing the abolitionist newspaper, North Star. During the war Delany served as a major, the U.S. Army’s first black field officer. Upon the conclusion of the great…
Rev. Thomas L. Johnson, a former slave, begins his biography “Twenty Eight Years a Slave” with the words: “According to information I received from my mother, I was born August 7th, 1836, at a place called Rock-Rayman, in the State of Virginia; but I do not know the place, as I was REMOVED when a…
Josephus Shackelford (1830-1915) of Moulton, Alabama today enters the Baptist newspaper business. From the 1850s to the present he has pastored a number of churches in the Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama region, while also teaching at various small Baptist institutions. He also served in two wars, the War with Mexico and the Civil War. Of…