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Blake; Or, The Huts of America (Paperback)
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Blake; Or, The Huts of America (Paperback)
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Loot Price R216
Discovery Miles 2 160
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Blake; Or, The Huts of America (1859-1862) is a novel by Martin
Delany. 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. 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. Through the eyes of
his hero Henry Blake, Delany envisions a future of revolutionary
possibility and radical resistance to slavery and oppression.
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. 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.
There, he marries Maggie, a fellow slave who happens to be the
illegitimate daughter of Franks himself. 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. 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. As his reputation grows, Blake begins to organize a small
uprising intended as only the first step of his radical
revolutionary plan. 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.
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