Blake: Or; The Huts of America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807064191)

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.

Author: Martin R. Delany
ISBN-10: 080706419X
ISBN-13: 9780807064191
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1971
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.35w x 0.86d