| Description |
1 online resource (xxxviii, 334 pages) |
| Contents |
The Project -- Colonel Franks at Home -- The Fate of Maggie -- The Departure of Maggie -- A Vacancy -- Henrys Return -- Master and Slave -- The Sale -- The Runaway -- Merry Making -- A Shadow -- The Discovery -- Perplexity -- Gad and Gossip -- Interchange of Opinion -- Solicitude and Amusement -- Henry at Large -- Fleeting Shadows -- Come What Will -- Advent Among the Indians -- What Not -- New Orleans -- The Rebel Blacks -- A Flying Cloud -- Like Father, Like Son -- Return to Mississippi -- A Night of Anxiety -- Studying Head Work -- The Fugitives -- The Pursuit -- The Attack, Resistance, Arrest -- The Escape -- Happy Greeting -- A Novel Adventure -- Cornelia Woodward -- Henry at the Hacienda -- A Glimmer of Hope -- Impatience -- The Discovery -- The Confrontment -- Obscurity -- The Interview-Blake -- Meeting and Greeting -- Seeking Employment" -- Coastward Bound -- Trans-Atlantic -- Significant -- Making the Coast -- The Slave Factory -- Before Leaving -- Homeward Bound" -- The Middle Passage -- Middle Passage-Chase Continued -- Storm During Middle Passage -- The Captives -- The Seeleys -- Anticipation -- Gala Day -- National Fete -- Great Gathering at Madam Cordovas -- The Grand Council -- Fearful Misgivings -- The Captain General and Lady -- The Confrontment -- What of the Negroes? -- Chit Chat -- False Alarm -- Sunday Morning" -- Entertainment at Carolus Blacus -- Momentous Step -- Fearful Apprehensions -- King's Day -- Increased Alarm -- American Tyranny-Oppression of the Negroes |
| Summary |
Martin R. Delany's Blake (c. 1860) tells the story of Henry Blake's escape from a southern plantation and his travels in the U.S., Canada, Africa, and Cuba on a mission to unite blacks of the Atlantic region in the struggle for freedom. Jerome McGann's edition offers the first correct printing of the work and an authoritative introduction.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-332) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Fiction
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African Americans -- History -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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FICTION / African American / Historical
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African Americans
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Enslaved persons
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| Genre/Form |
novels.
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Novels
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Fiction
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History
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Fiction.
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History.
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Novels.
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Romans.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McGann, Jerome J., editor
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| ISBN |
9780674973367 |
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0674973364 |
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