Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- A Note on the Texts -- Part I. Pittsburgh, the Mystery, Freemasonry -- Notes -- Prospectus of the Mystery -- Not Fair -- Liberty or Death -- Young Women -- Self-Elevation Tract Society -- Farewell to Readers of the Mystery -- Eulogy on the Life and Character of the Rev. Fayette Davis -- The Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry: Its Introduction into the United States, and Legitimacy among Colored Men. A Treatise Delivered Before St. Cyprian Lodge, No. 13, June 24th, A.D. 1853-A.L. 5853 -- Man from Adam to Noah. -- Man from Noah to Solomon. -- Man the Likeness of God. -- From Solomon Down. -- The Stages of Man's History. -- Its Introduction into the United States. -- Among Colored Men in the United States. -- Part II. The North Star -- Notes -- Western Tour for the North Star -- True Patriotism -- Sound the Alarm -- Liberia -- Political Economy -- Domestic Economy -- I -- II -- III -- Southern Customs-Madame Chevalier -- Annexation of Cuba -- The Redemption of Cuba -- Letter to M. H. Burnham, 5 October 1849 -- Delany and Frederick Douglass on Samuel R.Ward -- To Samuel R.Ward -- Douglass's response -- To Frederick Douglass -- Part III. Debating Black Emigration -- Notes -- Protest against the First Resolution of the North American Convention -- The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States -- Chapter I. Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered. -- Chapter II. Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States. -- Chapter IX. Capacity of Colored Men and Women as Citizen Members of Community. -- Chapter XVI. National Disfranchisement of Colored People. -- Chapter XVII. Emigration of the Colored People of the United States. -- Chapter XVIII. "Republic of Liberia." -- Chapter XXI. Central and South America and the West Indies.

Chapter XXII. Nicaragua and New Grenada. -- Chapter XXIII. Things as They Are. -- Chapter XXIV. A Glance at Ourselves-Conclusion. -- Letter to Oliver Johnson, 30 April 1852 -- Letter to William Lloyd Garrison, 14 May 1852 -- Letter to Frederick Douglass, 10 July 1852 -- Delany and Douglass on Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Letter to Douglass, 30 May 1853 -- Call for a National Emigration Convention of Colored Men to Be Held in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 24th, 25th and 26th of August, 1854 -- Letter to Douglass, 7 November 1853 -- Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent -- Political Aspect of the Colored People of the United States -- What Does It Mean? -- Letter to Garrison, 19 February 1859 -- Blake -- or, The Huts of America -- Part I. -- Chapter XI. A Shadow. -- Part II. -- Chapter VII. Obscurity. -- Chapter VIII. The Interview-Blake. -- Comets -- Part IV. Africa -- Notes -- A Project for an Expedition of Adventure, to the Eastern Coast of Africa -- Letter to Henry Ward Beecher, 17 June 1858 -- Canada.-Captain John Brown -- Martin R. Delany in Liberia -- Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party -- Section VIII. Topography, Climate, etc. -- Section IX. Diseases of This Part of Africa, Treatment, Hygiene, Ailment. -- Section X.Missionary In.uence. -- Section XI.What Africa Now Requires. -- Section XII. To Direct Legitimate Commerce. -- Section XIII. Cotton Staple. -- The International Statistical Congress -- Africa and the African Race -- Letter to James T. Holly, 15 January 1861 -- Letter to Robert Hamilton, 28 September 1861 -- Letter to James McCune Smith, 11 January 1862 -- Letter to the Weekly Anglo-African, 22 January 1862 -- The Moral and Social Aspect of Africa -- Part V. Civil War and Reconstruction -- Notes -- Letter to Edwin M. Stanton, 15 December 1863 -- The Council-Chamber.-President Lincoln.

The Colored Citizens of Xenia Their Prowess and Their Patriotism Major Delany-A Negro "in Full Uniform" His Speech -- Monument to President Lincoln: Two Documents -- Prospects of the Freedmen of Hilton Head -- Triple Alliance-The Restoration of the South- Salvation of Its Political Economy -- Letter to the Colored Delegation, 22 February 1866 -- Letter to Andrew Johnson, 25 July 1866 -- Letter to Henry Highland Garnet, 27 July 1867 -- Reflections on the War -- University Pamphlets. A Series of Four Tracts on National Polity: To the Students of Wilberforce University -- Being Adapted to the Capacity of the Newly- Enfranchised Citizens, the Freedmen -- Advertisement of Author. -- A Series of Four Tracts on National Polity. -- Number I. Citizenship. -- Number II. Civil Rights. -- Number III. Constitution. -- Number IV. Secession. -- Homes for the Freedmen -- Delany and Frederick Douglass, Letter Exchange, 1871 -- Delany for Lieutenant Governor South Carolina State Election of 1874: Two Speeches -- Daybreak, At Last! -- Green and Delany -- The South and Its Foes -- Delany for Hampton -- Politics on Edisto Island -- Part VI. The Republic of Liberia -- Notes -- Letter on President Warner of Liberia, 1866 -- The African Exodus -- Principia of Ethnology: The Origin of Races and Color, with an Archeological Compendium of Ethiopian and Egyptian Civilization, from Years of Careful Examination and Enquiry -- Preface -- Chapter I. The Origin of Races and Color. -- Chapter II. The Creation of Man. -- Chapter III. The Original Man. -- Chapter IV. The Family of Noah. -- Chapter V. The Origin of the Races. -- Chapter VI. How Color Originates. -- Chapter VIII. The Progress of Races. -- Chapter XIV.Wisdom of Ethiopia and Egypt. -- Chapter XVIII. Comparative Elements of Civilization. -- Letter to William Coppinger, 18 December 1880 -- Chronology -- Selected Bibliography.

Index -- A-B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G-K -- L-N -- O-R -- S -- T-W -- X-Y.