![]() She quickly moved the family to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Pati was determined to educate her children, but Virginia was a slave state, and she was reported to the sheriff for teaching them to read and write from The New York Primer for Spelling and Reading, which she had procured from a traveling peddler. His mother, Pati, may have won her freedom because of this and she worked as a seamstress, while her husband Samuel was an enslaved carpenter. All of his grandparents had been brought over from Africa to be slaves, but his father's father was by some accounts a village chieftain, and his mother's father a Mandingo prince. The youngest of five children, Delany was the son of a slave and grandson of a prince, according to family reports. ![]() Martin Robison Delany was born free on May 6, 1812, in Charles Town, Virginia, now within West Virginia. He was a successful physician - one of the first African Americans admitted to Harvard Medical School - who used his influence to educate others about the evils of slavery with a number of abolitionist publications. ![]() Martin Robison Delany spent his life working to end slavery. ![]() (1812-1885) Who Was Martin Robison Delany? ![]()
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