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Exposure Mode 0 Keywords historic marker Martin R. Delany West Virginia South attraction display education historical marker Historical Site information landmark marker Place of Interest sign Tourist Destination Travel Destination United States attractive destination educating historic markers historic site info signage tourist attraction United States of America appealing history no people text tourism travel attract historic nobody word WV daytime displays historical markers landmarks markers signs appeal color image educate historical outdoor US vertical day destinations historic sites tourist attractions colour image outside USA day time U.S. day-time words U.S.A. color images Jason O. Watson / historical-markers.org daylight outdoors verticals colour images natural light outsides Jefferson County sign with text
Caption MARTIN R. DELANY Free African-American, born 1812 in Charles Town. Died 1885. Ability to read forced family to move to PA in 1822. Studied medicine and attended Harvard in 1850. Published <i>Mystery</i>, first black newspaper west of Allegh. 1843-47, & co-edited <i>North Star</i> with Frederick Douglass to promote and aid abolitionist cause. Comm. major, highest raning African-American field officer in Union Army, in 1865. WV Celebration 2000 West Virginia Division of Archives and History, 2003.