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:

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挖掘埃塞俄比亚：宝琳霍普金斯的《一血》中的圣经考古学

宝琳·霍普金斯 (Pauline Hopkins) 的小说《一血》(Of One Blood) 于 1902 年 11 月至 1903 年 11 月在《有色人种》杂志上连载，描述了一次旨在挖掘埃塞俄比亚梅罗 (Meroe) 古老文化之都的考古探险。这项努力有望使参与者变得富有，并恢复失去的非洲历史。当探险队到达东非时，小说中的一位白人考古学家查理万斯表达了西方对非洲的普遍看法：