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Blake; or, The Huts of America
| Author: | Martin R. Delany |
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Harvard University Press, 2017 Beacon Press, 1970 Original English publication, 1862 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Alternate History (SF) |
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Synopsis
This work is a selction from author Nisi Shawl's: A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction, an annotated list of 40+ black science fiction works that are important to your understanding of its history. Read more about this selection below.
Delany's hero is a West Indian slave who travels throughout the South advocating revolution, and later becomes the general of a black insurrectory force in Cuba. Blake hopes that, with rebellion in Cuba and the expulsion of all Americans, Cuba's model as a self-governed black state will ultimately precipitate the downfall of slavery in the United States.
Focusing on the political and social issues of the 1850s - slavery as an institution, Cuba as the prime interest of Southern expansionists, the practicality of militant slave revolution, and the possibilities of collective action - Blake is one of the most revealing novels of its period.
From ISFDB: Part one (chapters 1-23 and 29-31) of the novel was serialized in The Anglo-African Magazine, January to July 1859. The rest of part one was first published when Delany reprinted the story in The Weekly Anglo-African, November 1861 to May 1862. The whole novel was not published in book form until 1970.
A copy may be found at http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/africam/blakehp.html
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