The story ignites a call for enslaved Black people to resist the institution of slavery. The 1859 story, Blake or The Huts of America, appeared in serialized form in two magazines before the U.S.
The man called ‘the father of Black nationalism’ even lent his mind to the fiction world. He wrote, “We are a nation within a nation, we must go from our oppressors.” He led an emigration commission to West Africa to scout potential re-habitation sites along the Niger River. Delany went on to finish his education at Harvard Medical School.ĭelany believed, as apparent in his papers, The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852) and the Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party (1861), that even abolitionists would never accept Black people as equals, and the only solution was a return to Africa. He published a newspaper called The Mystery and later joined Frederick Douglass (1818–95) in producing and promoting the anti-slavery newspaper The North Star. Using the resources available, Delany began an apprenticeship as a physician and opened a medical practice soon after.
Army, produced a collection of works that resonate with the ethos of nation claims, belonging and place.īorn to an enslaved father, Delany’s story might have had a different ending if his free mother didn’t flee persecution caused by teaching her children how to read and write. Delany (1812–85), the abolitionist and first Black field officer in the U.S. The director’s use of the same title as the 1915 Ku Klux Klan propaganda film was an effort of reclamation of thought behind nation building. The 2016 film The Birth of a Nation followed the story of Nat Turner, a leader of a slave rebellion in 1831. In anticipation of the US release (June 15th) for our upcoming anthology Black Sci-Fi Short Stories, Patty Nicole Johnson takes a look at five of the authors who laid the foundations of black science fiction writing and are essential reading.įounders of Black SF: Martin R.
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