The Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry, Its Introduction Into the United States, and Legitimacy Among Colored Men

"Delaney...chides white Masons for refusing to deal with black Masons on equal terms." - Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader (2003) "Black Mason's embrace of this gloriously gendered and racialized narrative of the Masonic genesis is attributable to... Delaney...an early architect of black nationalism." - National Imaginaries, American Identities (2021) "The explicit purpose of this treatise...was to respond to attempts to undermine the authority of black Freemasons...blacks had been excluded