The narrative focuses around an enslaved African by the name of Blake who travels throughout the South advocating African nationalist revolution, which ultimately culminates into Blake becoming the general of an African revolutionary struggle in Cuba. In the navigation bar, 'Collation Procedures' discusses the methods I used to prepare the collations, and 'Overview of Results' explains the types of variant readings which the collations have revealed.Blake or The Huts of America is the fascinating story by the late great Pan-Africanist Martin Delany (1812-1885). Below, users will find links to the collated chapters. I used the 1859 edition as the base text, with variants in the 1861-62 text recorded in the apparatus.

Each couple of variant readings is associated with a paragraph number where the variant is located in the text. The results of the collation are presented as a set of textual notes at the bottom of the text of each chapter.

Such revision may significantly inform our understanding of the novel. My purpose in conducting this collation is to see whether Delany revised his work between the 18 printings. Miller did not collate the two versions of chapters 1-23 and 28-30, working solely from the 1859 text for them and from the 1861-62 text for the other chapters. Miller's 1970 Beacon Press edition of Blake prints all 74 chapters, correcting punctuation and regularizing spelling and capitalization for the sake of clarity. When these issues were uncovered, they revealed chapters 24-27 and another 44 chapters. The novel was published again in the Anglo-African Weekly from November 21, 1861, to April 26, 1862.

Delany published his only novel, Blake, or, The Huts of America, in serial form in the Anglo-African Magazine, from which chapters 1-23 and 28-30 have been found.

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