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The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel.(Book review)

The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel. By Julia C. Collins. Edited by William L. Andrews and Mitch Kachun. Foreword by Frances Smith Foster. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 208 pp. $22.00/$11.95 paper.

The republication of The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride is an act of dynamic literary recovery. Editors William L. Andrews and Mitch Kachun introduce this work as the first novel, the first serialized novel, and the first non-autobiographical novel by an African American woman. Published serially in 1865 in the Christian Recorder, the gripping story was part of the promising oeuvre of Mrs. Julia C. Collins, a Pennsylvania ...

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