Maggie's husband, Henrico Blacus, a West Indian brought as a slave to the South comes back from an errand and needless to say, is furious. The deal had been settled between the two husbands-Colonel Franks and Judge Ballard. Ballard was to take her with her to Havana, Cuba as a maidservant. Franks is forced to sell Maggie, a faithful slave whom she treated more like a younger sister than anything else to her cousin Mrs. The first chapter opens on Natchez, Mississippi prior to the Civil War, shortly after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law. SUMMARY ( Anglo-African Magazine serialization, brief sketch of the other chapters in parentheticals): Thus, though Delany's novel is easily "the most important black novel of this period," scholarly attention has been slow in coming (SOURCE: Floyd Miller, Intro). By this time, however, the Civil War had begun and fears of an organized slave-rebellion came to be eclipsed by other concerns.
The black nationalistic orientationof the newspaper was particularly suited to Delany's work. The complete novel was later serialized in weekly installments from November 1861-May 1862 in The Weekly Anglo-African. Only twenty-six chapters were published 1-23 and 28-31 and it is unclear exactly as to why the complete novel was not printed. He was a prominent figure in the work of black newspapers, serving as the editor of The Mystery in the earlier part of the 1840s, and co-editing The North Star with Frederick Douglass from 1847-1849. In February of 1859, African-American Martin Delany appealed to William Lloyd Garrison to help him find a publishing house for his work, "Blake or the Huts of America" which was, at the time, being serialized in the Anglo-African Magazine (January through July). Martin Delany was born to a free mother and enslaved father in West Virginia in 1812.
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