Of One Blood
by Pauline Hopkins

Of One Blood cover — Cover of *Of One Blood* on the Open Library.

Originally serialized in Colored American Magazine around 1902, and written by that magazine’s editor, Pauline Hopkins. Recounts the tale of a mixed-race doctor who sails to Africa and stumbles upon Telassar, the lost capital of ancient Ethiopia.

The novel is racial commentary, supernatural melodrama, pulp adventure, and maybe a little bit science fiction. Or utopian fiction. It’s hard to say how to categorize Of One Blood. I finally decided on Gothic Romance.

Discussion of this and other work by Pauline Hopkins at Multo.

Nina Zumel

Of One Bloodby Pauline Hopkins

Of One Blood
by Pauline Hopkins