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Blake:Or; the Huts Of america
[Paperback - 1971]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Historical Fiction
Additional Category: Ethnic Fiction - Political Fiction
Publisher: Beacon Press | ISBN: 9780807064191 | Pages: 352
Shipping Weight: .372 | Dimensions: 4.9 x .4 x 7.6 inches

Delaney's hero is a West Indian slave who travels throughout the South advocating revolution, and later becomes the general of a black insurrectory fore 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.

Martin R. Delaney (1812-85) has been called the father of American black nationalism, and his only novel, Blake, powerfully dramatizes his separatist philosophy.

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