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Researched, written, and post-produced by Jim Surkamp; original music by Seth Austen and Bev Woods; music vocals by Alice Bort and Ardyth Gilbertson; Readers: Sonny Luckett as Martin Delany; Ardyth Gilbertson; Momodou Darboe; Ernest Johnson; Norman Mackenzie, Christine Parfitt Robinson; David Robinson
Martin Delany – African Dream – 1 – TRT: 5:38 Forty-seven year old Delany is on his way over Atlantic waves to see for the first time his psychic and spiritual home – Africa. What he sees enchants, enlightens – and shocks.
Martin Delany – England – 2 – TRT: 4:55 Successful speaking tour in England causes international sensation at an important scientific congress, declaring before the American Ambassador and all present: “I am a MAN.”
Martin Delany – War Comes – 3 – TRT: 4:32 Returns home to the United States in time for the outbreak of the Civil War. This video covers the high points of the Civil War in a series of statements before a war-related image with sound and music up to early 1863.
Martin Delany – Wartime – 4 – TRT: 7:22 This video covers the high points of the Civil War in a series of statements before a war-related image with sound and image for the period after the death of Stonewall Jackson in 1863.
Martin Delany – Meets Lincoln – 5 – TRT: 6:34 Delany has a fateful interview with President Lincoln in February, 1865 setting the stage for Delany’s key role in the reconstruction effort in South Carolina.
Martin Delany – Major Delany – 6 – TRT: 5:32 After Lincoln’s death, Delany and others struggle to ensure reforms to protect the freedman from losing their promised lands and from abuses of former large landholders.
Martin Delany – South Carolina Struggle – 7 – TRT: 2:20 Everyone sees Delany’s leaderly powers.
Martin Delany – Disillusioned – 8 – TRT: 4:17 The vast corruption of Radical Republicans disillusions Delany.
Martin Delany – Charleston – 9 – TRT: 5:37 Advances in South Carolina crumble; Delany pushes on, seeking alliances with the politically-moderate planter, Gen. Wade Hampton.
Martin Delany – Betrayed – 10 – TRT: 6:01 Delany throws his support controversially for Wade Hampton for Governor against the Radical Republicans and it has a far-reaching unwanted, unforeseeable result.
Martin Delany – Going Home – 11 – TRT: 4:29 Having tried everything and turning to nurture the lives ahead of his children, Delany settles for the final quiet days of his life.
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