With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Martin Delany's Blake, or the Huts of America is a classic work of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.The first though fragmentary appearance in 1859 of Blake or, The Huts of America, by Martin R. As his reputation grows, Blake begins to organize a small uprising intended as only the first step of his radical revolutionary plan. He soon escapes, journeying in secret across the American South and interviewing enslaved African Americans along his way, learning the strategies of resistance and struggle they use every day for survival. When Maggie is sold away following a dispute with the master and his wife, Henry vows not only to find her, but to lead every last slave to freedom. There, he marries Maggie, a fellow slave who happens to be the illegitimate daughter of Franks himself. Delany, who described it as "about as close to an sf-style alternate history novel as you can get." Born free, Henry Blake is stolen into slavery from his family in the West Indies and taken to the Mississippi plantation of Colonel Stephen Franks. Though it was largely ignored upon publication, the novel gained traction with the Black Power and Pan-Africanist Movements in the twentieth century and has earned praise from such scholars as Samuel R. Through the eyes of his hero Henry Blake, Delany envisions a future of revolutionary possibility and radical resistance to slavery and oppression. Despite this, Blake, or the Huts of America is considered a brilliantly unique work of fiction from an author known more for his activism and political investment in black nationalism. Serialized in The Anglo-African Magazine, the novel has had a complicated publishing history due to the loss of the physical issues in which the final chapters appeared in May 1862. Blake, or the Huts of America (1859-1862) is a novel by Martin Delany.
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