USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In August 1854, Delany led the National Emigration Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, along with his friend James Monroe Whitfield, the abolitionist poet, and other black activists. Delany advanced his emigrationist argument in his second manifesto, “Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent".

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1874 Delany ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor as an Independent Republican in South Carolina; thereafter his fortunes declined. He was the author of The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States Politically Considered (1852).

Detailed explanation-3: -He soon became a member of the abolitionist movement, founding and editing the Mystery, a Black newspaper, from 1843 until 1847, and co-editing with Frederick Douglass the North Star from 1847 until 1849.

Detailed explanation-4: -Delany managed to edit a newspaper, studied medicine at Harvard until he was asked to leave, explored the Niger River in West Africa, accepted a commission from Lincoln to become a major in the Union Army, lived in South Carolina and run for Lieutenant Governor, amassing an impressive vote.