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Blake: or; The Huts of America

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 352
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780807064191
  • Settings
  • Cuba
  • Genres
  • fiction, classics, american, race
  • Release date
  • 1971