Born free in Charlestown, Virginia to an enslaved Father and free Mother, Martin learned to read and write at an early age. To avoid their enslavement and persecution for educating her family, his Mother moved them to Pennsylvania.

BEFORE the ASCENSION

BEFORE the NORTH STAR
Martin’s desire for learning inspired him to walk 160 miles to Pittsburgh to learn Latin, Greek, and the Classics. He began an apprenticeship with a Pittsburgh physician and soon opened a successful medical practice.
BEFORE becoming ETERNAL
Disturbed by the social condition of African Americans, Martin partners with Fredrick Douglas to start a Newspaper called “The North Star” to give the stories of African Americans a voice from their own accounts.
He would later enter Harvard Medical School to finish his formal medical education but was dismissed from the institution as a result of petitions to the school from white students.
ASCENSION
Martin moves his family to Canada and begins to secretly assist the Underground Railroad, helping resettle African American refugee slaves who had reached freedom.
He was also a member of the Chatham, Ontario Vigilance Committee that protected former slaves from being returned to the United States.

Martin leads an emigration commission to West Africa to explore possible sites for a new Black Nation along the Niger River. He makes an agreement with eight indigenous Chiefs to allow settlers to live on unused land in return for applying their skills for the community’s good.

NORTH STAR

When the Civil war begins Martin persuades Abraham Lincoln to create an all-black Corps led by African American officers. He was commissioned a Major in the 52nd U.S. Colored Troops Regiment and became the first Black line officer in U.S. Army history.

Years after the civil war ends Martin helps form the Liberia Exodus Joint Stock Steamship Company to achieve liberation for a new Black Nation.

ETERNAL