Abstract
Abstract: I argue that Martin Delany’s Blake; or, The Huts of America (1859) endorses a radical, speculative, and utopian political project whereby the possibility of Black liberation in the Americas is dependent on a revolutionary dismantling and restructuring of the institutions and apparatuses that uphold systemic white supremacy. Expressed formally in the fugitive movements of its protagonist, the novel oscillates between critiques of slavery and the animating, trace images of the society to come. Ultimately in utopian fashion, each instance of changing places becomes in the novel a speculative occasion for considering the ways in which a place may be changed .
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