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Date of Event
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1859
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Title
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Martin R. Delany, "Blake; or the Huts of America."
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Brief Description
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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.
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Student creator name(s)
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R. Reed
