![]() There, he marries Maggie, a fellow slave who happens to be the illegitimate daughter of Franks himself. 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. Delany, who described it as about as close to an sf-style alternate history novel as you can get. 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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