Blake: or the Huts of America
| Title | Blake: or the Huts of America |
| Year for Search | 1859 |
| Authors | Delany, Martin R[obison](1812-85) |
| Date Published | 1859/1970 |
| Publisher | Beacon Press |
| Place Published | Boston, MA |
| Keywords | African American author, Male author |
| Annotation | Much of the book is on the situation in Africa, Cuba, and North America, there are insurrections, failed and successful, by slaves and the published part of the novel ends with the results of the successful insurrection and the outlines of a nation of blacks, which the author had argued for in his other works. Given the trajectory at the end of the novel, the lost chapters may have made the utopia more explicit. |
| Additional Publishers | Originally published in part as “Blake: Or the Huts of America. A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States, and Cuba.” The Anglo-African Magazine 1.1 - 7 (January - July 1859): 20-29 [Chapters 28-30], 37-43 [Chapters 1-5], 69-79 [Chapters 6-9], 104-114 [Chapters 10-12], 129-39 [Chapters 13-16], 160-72 [Chapters 17-20], 192-203 [Chapters 21-23] and then with all but the last chapters, which are lost, in The Weekly Anglo-American (November 1861 - May 1862). For a critical edition, see Blake or, The Huts of America. A Corrected Edition. Ed. Jerome McGann: Harvard University Press, 2017, with the editor’s “Introduction” (ix-xxxii) and an “Editor’s Note” (xxxiii-xxxviii). Rpt. in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 48-143. Excerpts are published in Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader. Ed. Robert S. Levine (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 273-314. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | African American author (1812-85) |
| Full Text | 1859 Delany, Martin R[obison] (1812-1885). Blake: or the Huts of America. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1970. For a critical edition, see Blake or, The Huts of America. A Corrected Edition. Ed. Jerome McGann: Harvard University Press, 2017, with the editor’s “Introduction” (ix-xxxii) and an “Editor’s Note” (xxxiii-xxxviii). Originally published in part as “Blake: Or the Huts of America. A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States, and Cuba.” The Anglo-African Magazine 1.1 - 7 (January - July 1859): 20-29 [Chapters 28-30], 37-43 [Chapters 1-5], 69-79 [Chapters 6-9], 104-114 [Chapters 10-12], 129-39 [Chapters 13-16], 160-72 [Chapters 17-20], 192-203 [Chapters 21-23] and then with all but the last chapters, which are lost, in The Weekly Anglo-American (November 1861 - May 1862). Rpt. in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 48-143. Excerpts are published in Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader. Ed. Robert S. Levine (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 273-314. PSt Much of the book is on the situation in Africa, Cuba, and North America, there are insurrections, failed and successful, by slaves and the published part of the novel ends with the results of the successful insurrection and the outlines of a nation of blacks, which the author had argued for in his other works. Given the trajectory at the end of the novel, the lost chapters may have made the utopia more explicit. African American author. |
