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
- Tag(s)
- AfroFuturism
- Item sets
- Black to the Future