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Excavating Ethiopia: Biblical Archaeology in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood

Pauline Hopkins’s novel Of One Blood, published serially between November 1902 and November 1903 in the Colored American Magazine, depicts an archaeological expedition that aims to excavate the ancient cultural capital of Meroe, Ethiopia. This endeavor promises to make its participants wealthy as well as to recover lost African histories. As the expedition reaches East Africa, one of the novel’s white archeologists, Charlie Vance, gives voice to commonplace western perceptions of Africa: