“Blake or the Huts of America” is very likely the greatest novel written in English. Finally, in 1859 America, Martin Delany published “Blake or the Huts of America”, making him the first post-Maafa African writer published in America. In 1853 England, William Wells Brown published “Clotel, or, the President’s Daughter” (a fictionalized account of Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson’s daughter) then he published “Miralda or, the Beautiful Quadroon” (a militant version of “Clotel.”) In 1857 England, again, Frank Webb published “The Garies and their Friends”. However, coming upon the end of African enslavement in America, a new wave of African novelists took form. After Europeans or Asians visited the remains of Ancient Egypt, Classical Timbuktu or other University towns in Africa they made sure to destroy records and burn documents while copying, claiming or stealing our Knowledge. There’s no telling how many novels were written in Ancient or Classical Africa. The History of Literature begins with African people. “I wake up each morning and say, thank God I am a man, whereas Delany wakes up and says thank God I am a black man.” - Frederick Douglass speaking of Martin Delany
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