One Blood

Mixed-race medical student Reuel Briggs doesn't give a damn about being Black and cares less for African history. When he arrives in Ethiopia on an archeological trip, his only interest is to raid as much of the country's lost treasures as possible so that he can make big bucks on his return to the States. The last thing he expects is to be held captive in the six-thousand-year-old buried city of Telassar, ruled by the beautiful Queen Candace. In Queen Candace's glittering palace, surrounded by diamonds, rubies, sapphires — wealth beyond his wildest dreams — Reuel discovers his true Blackness and the painful truth about blood, race and the "other half" of his history which has never been told. * Relevant, thought-provoking, and entertaining, Hopkins’s novel is intended, in her own words, to “raise the stigma of degradation from [the Black] race” and its title, Of One Blood, refers to the biological kinship of all human beings. [Goodreads] * Full title (not in the book): Of One Blood; Or, The Hidden Self Publishing date according to Goodreads (real date unknown) First published in The Colored American Magazine, sr3, November 1902-January 1903 First book publication in collection The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and of One Blood) (om 1988, n3) by Oxford University Press, USA First UK separate book publication in 1996 by The X Press First US separate book publication in 2004 by Washington Square Press