Martin R. Delany, "Blake; or the Huts of America."
Date of Event
1859
Title
Martin R. Delany, "Blake; or the Huts of America."
Brief Description
One of the earliest works of speculative fiction in the Afrofuturist canon. Published as a weekly serial in the Anglo-African Magazine and the Weekly Anglo-African. In this antebellum narrative, Delany tells the story of Henry Blake, a free-born slave who escapes bondage. He travels around the U.S. and Cuba seeking collaborators who will join his to start a series of slave insurrections in the US and Caribbean. The story was never finished.
Student creator name(s)
R. Reed