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New edition with a new introduction. Delany's tale of Blake, an
escaped slave in the era before the US Civil War, depicts the
harrowing detail of life under slavery and offers a call to action
for resistance. Casting beyond the misery of slavery, Delany's
novel, located in the Southern United States and Cuba, demonstrates
that alternatives are possible if only widespread insurrection
could be ignited. A new title in the Foundations of Black Science
Fiction series. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural
to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451
offers a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists,
secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover
a storehouse of tales, ancient and modern gathered specifically for
the reader of the fantastic. The Foundations titles also explore
the roots of modern fiction and brings together neglected works
which deserve a wider readership as part of a series of classic,
essential books.
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.
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.
A preeminent African American abolitionist, author, public
intellectual, physician, the highest ranking Black officer during
the Civil War, and a notable activist for the emigration of Blacks
to Africa, Martin Robison Delany has left an enduring legacy in his
writings, the power of his ideas, and his political activism. If
many of his contemporaries were armchair thinkers, Delany went to
Africa to see things for himself. So influential was he during the
nineteenth century that a number of people now refer to him as the
"Father of Black Nationalism." He spent most of his career working
toward the goal of seeking Black emancipation through practical
projects aimed toward returning African Americans to Africa, where
he hoped his people would make a new beginning within the context
of political freedom and a society devoid of racism. Two of his
most influential works on Black nationalism are presented in this
volume. The Condition, Elevation, and Destiny of the Colored People
of the United States (1852) presents Delany's separatist views. To
many scholars of African American political thought, this book
marks the origin of Black nationalism in print. However, its scope
is much broader than this single focus might suggest. It is the
first book-length study to present an account of the economic and
political status of Blacks in the United States. Because of the
intractable nature of U.S. racism and the deplorable living
conditions of most African Americans, Delany concludes by
recommending emigration of African Americans to Central America.
Some years later Delany turned to Africa as the better choice for
relocation of Black Americans. Based on an exploratory journey he
took to West Africa in1859, he wrote Official Report of the Niger
Valley Exploring Party. The report provides clear information on
the conditions in West Africa of that time to give immigrants an
idea of what they would encounter. He describes the way of life,
diseases and their treatment, climate, soil, animals, plants, and
peoples. He also provides an impressive amount of data on how to
improve agriculture, land, ventilation, and housing to promote
better living standards. Taken together, these two provocative and
intriguing nineteenth-century documents shed much light on the
Black nationalism movement in the context of African American
history.
Martin R. Delany's Blake (1859, 1861-1862) is one of the most
important African American-and indeed American-works of fiction of
the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake's escape
from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the
United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is
to unite the black populations of the American Atlantic regions,
both free and slave, in the struggle for freedom, whether through
insurrection or through emigration and the creation of an
independent black state. Blake is a rhetorical masterpiece, all the
more strange and mysterious for remaining incomplete, breaking off
before its final scene. This edition of Blake, prepared by textual
scholar Jerome McGann, offers the first correct printing of the
work in book form. It establishes an accurate text, supplies
contextual notes and commentaries, and presents an authoritative
account of the work's composition and publication history. In a
lively introduction, McGann argues that Delany employs the
resources of fiction to develop a critical account of the
interconnected structure of racist power as it operated throughout
the American Atlantic. He likens Blake to Upton Sinclair's The
Jungle, in its willful determination to transform a living and
terrible present. Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected
Edition will be used in undergraduate and graduate classes on the
history of African American fiction, on the history of the American
novel, and on black cultural studies. General readers will welcome
as well the first reliable edition of Delany's fiction.
One of the most powerful and provocative voices to emerge from the
social and political unrest preceding the Civil War, the
abolitionist and political activist Delany is today considered to
have been among the earliest black nationalists. This volume offers
a concise introduction to Delany's extraordinary career: included
in full is the rousing separatist oration 'Political Destiny of the
Colored Race on the American Continent,' followed by a substantial
selection from Delany's sole published novel, Blake, often hailed
as one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century American
literature. The volume concludes with an epistolary debate between
Delany and Frederick Douglass, situating Delany's ideas in relation
to those of Douglass and of Harriet Beecher Stowe. This volume is
one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of
the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature; like the
others, it is designed to make a range of material from the
anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide
variety of contexts.
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