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Kingsblood Royal
''Kingsblood Royal'', a novel by American writer Sinclair Lewis, was published in 1947.
==Synopsis==
The protagonist, Neil Kingsblood, a white middle-class man, discovers while researching his family background that he is directly descended from an African adventurer on the American frontier. (His ancestor is loosely modeled after Pierre Bonga, an African American who worked as a fur trapper for the North West Company.)〔William Sherman Savage, ''Blacks in the West,'' Greenwood Publishing Group, 1976, pp. 68-70〕
Through various machinations, Kingsblood loses his banking job and takes a lesser one. He begins to be treated differently by former acquaintances, despite the lack of visible African ancestry. He is forced to choose between continuing what he has come to see as a hollow existence in the white community and taking on the oppressed minority status of the black community.
After Kingsblood tells several white friends about his newfound ancestry, the news quickly spreads, and he finds that acquaintances change their behavior toward him. He engages in a quixotic struggle against the racism newly apparent but widespread in his community. At the climax, a mob comes to evict Kingsblood from his house in a white suburb, and he stands them down.
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