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By Martin R. Delany,Floyd J. Miller

Delaney's hero is a West Indian slave who travels in the course of the South advocating revolution, and later turns into the final of a black insurrectory fore in Cuba. Blake hopes that, with uprising in Cuba and the expulsion of all americans, Cuba's version as a self-governed black country will finally precipitate the downfall of slavery within the United States.

Focusing at the political and social problems with the 1850s – slavery as an establishment, Cuba because the major curiosity of Southern expansionists, the practicality of militant slave revolution, and the probabilities of collective motion – Blake is the most revealing novels of its period.

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