The curse of caste, or, The slave bride
Subtitle: a rediscovered African American novel
By: by Julia C. Collins ; edited by William L. Andrews and Mitch Kachun.
Contributors: Andrews, William L., 1946-; Kachun, Mitchell A.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9780195301595; 9780195301601
Subjects: Racially mixed people -- Fiction; Family secrets -- Fiction; New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Curse of caste.; Slave bride.
Description: "In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American woman living in the small town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The first novel ever published in antebellum Louisiana and Connecticut and focused on the lives of a beautiful mixed-race mother and daughter whose opportunities for fulfillment through love and marriage are threatened by slavery and caste prejudice. The text shares much with popular nineteenth-century women's fiction, while its dominant themes of interracial romance, hidden African ancestry, and ambiguous racial identity have parallels in the writings of both black and white authors from the period." "Begun in the waning months of the Civil War, the novel was near its conclusion when Julia Collins died of tuberculosis in November of 1865. In this first-ever book publication of The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, the editors have composed a hopeful and a tragic ending, reflecting two alternatives Collins almost certainly would have considered for the closing of her novel."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.