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The Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry, Its Introduction Into the United States, and Legitimacy Among Colored Men (1853)
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About The Origin And Objects Of Ancient Freemasonry, Its
"Delaney…chides white Masons for refusing to deal with black Masons on equal terms." - Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader (2003)"Black Mason's embrace of this gloriously gendered and racialized narrative of the Masonic genesis is attributable to… Delaney…an early architect of black nationalism." - National Imaginaries, American Identities (2021)"The explicit purpose of this treatise…was to respond to attempts to undermine the authority of black Freemasons…blacks had been excluded from the U.S. Freemasons." - Liberation Historiography (2004)"Delaney points out that black exclusivism was forced on blacks by the exclusionary practices of white racist Masons." - Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity (2000) Does white Masonry owe its Masonic inheritance to the genius of the black man, and were the first Masons black? In 1853, Martin Robison Delany (1812 – 1885), an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism published the short book, "The Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry, Its Introduction Into the United States, and Legitimacy Among Colored Men." The purpose of the book was to establish the legitimacy of black Freemasonry, which had come under attack as being fraudulent. Delaney bolsters the image of black freemasonry by establishing the roots of masonry date back to black men which included King Solomon among their ranks. In this book Delany writes: "In the year 178—, a number of colored men in Boston, Massachusetts, applied to the proper source for a grant of Masonic privileges, which being denied them, by force of necessity they went to England, which, at that time not recognizing the Masonic fraternity of America, the then acting Grand Master, (recorded on the warrant as the Right Honorable, Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland) granted a warrant to the colored men to make Masons and establish Lodges, subject, of course, to the Grand Lodge of England. In course of time, their ties became absolved; not before it was preceded by the establishment of an independent Grand Lodge in Philadelphia, Pa., by colored men, and subsequently, a general Grand Lodge, known as the First Independent African Grand Lodge of North America." About the author: Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885) was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, soldier, and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. Born as a free person of color in Charles Town, Virginia, now West Virginia (not Charleston, West Virginia) and raised in Chambersburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Delany trained as a physician's assistant. During the cholera epidemics of 1833 and 1854 in Pittsburgh, Delany treated patients. Delany traveled in the South in 1839 to observe slavery firsthand. Beginning in 1847, he worked alongside Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York to publish the North Star. In 1850, Delany was one of the first three black men admitted to Harvard Medical School. Delany dreamed of establishing a settlement in West Africa. He visited Liberia, a U.S. colony founded by the American Colonization Society. When the Civil War began, he returned to the U.S. When the United States Colored Troops were created in 1863, he recruited for them. Commissioned as a major in February 1865, Delany became the first African-American field grade officer in the U.S. Army. After the Civil War, Delany settled in South Carolina. There he worked for the Freedmen's Bureau and became politically active, including in the Colored Conventions Movement. He ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor as a Republican.
