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Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self

Pauline Hopkins

First published April 1988
Type Novel

Medical student Reuben Briggs, passing for white, is drawn to the Negro singer Dianthe Lusk by visions, then has the opportunity to awaken her from a deathlike mesmeric trance. His friend Aubrey Livingston (wanting Dianthe) intervenes and sends him on an expedition to Africa. There follows a plot full of secret identities, and the discovery of a hidden Ethiopian kingdom.

First serialized in The Colored American Magazine, 1902-1903; not published in book form until 1988.

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