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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Delany, Martin R.
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| Publisher: |
Beacon Press
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| Date: |
6/1/1971
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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.
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