![]() ![]() ![]() The following issue, February 1859, provides the first chapters of the novel, and chapters continued to appear monthly until July 1859, when publication ceased abruptly with chapter 23. In that issue excerpts from chapters 28, 29, and 30 appear, and an introduction details the novel as spanning eighty chapters. The novel's incomplete debut came with the January 1859 issue of the Anglo-African Magazine. The complexity surrounding Blake arises in part from its idiosyncratic publication history. The novel is significant, however, not only for its place in literary history but also for the way its literary themes are interwoven with complex commentary on wide-ranging social debates of the time and for the polemical ideas its prominent author espouses in the novel. The historical significance of the novel has been somewhat obscured, in part by a complicated publication history. Delany (1812–1885), marks an important milestone in the development of the literature of black America: it is the first novel by a black writer published in the United States. ![]() The first though fragmentary appearance in 1859 of Blake or, The Huts of America, by Martin R. ![]()
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