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The book of negroes : [a novel] Cover Image Book Book

The book of negroes : [a novel]

Hill, Lawrence 1957- (Author).

Summary: When Aminata Diallo sits down to pen the story of her life in London, England, she has a world of experience behind her. Abducted from her village in West Africa as an eleven-year-old child and forced to walk in a coffle - a string of slaves - for months to the sea, Aminata is put to work on an indigo plantation on the sea islands of South Carolina. She survives by using midwifery skills learned at her mother's side and by drawing on a strength inhereted from both her parents. But Aminata remains trapped, narrowly avoiding the violence that cuts short so many lives around her. Eventually she has the chance to register her name in the "Book of Negroes" a historic British military ledger allowing 3,000 Black Loyalists passage on ships sailing from Manhattan to Nova Scotia.

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  • ISBN: 9781554681563 (sc)
  • ISBN: 9780002255073
  • ISBN: 1554681561 (sc)
  • ISBN: 9780393065787 (Norton)
  • ISBN: 0002255073 :
  • ISBN: 9781554681563 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1554681561 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0393065782 (Norton)
  • Physical Description: 486 p. ; 24 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins, c2007.
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    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 3 / 5.0

Content descriptions

General Note:
Subtitle from jacket.
Awards Note:
Canada Read 2009 winner

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Subject: Slavery -- Fiction
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Freedmen -- Fiction
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction
Nova Scotia -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 29 of 32 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Valemount Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 32 total copies.
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  • Baker & Taylor
    Dreaming of escaping her life of slavery in South Carolina and returning to her African home, slave Aminata Diallo is thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, during which she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king.
  • Baker & Taylor
    Dreaming daily of escaping her life of slavery in South Carolina and returning to her African home, slave Aminata Diallo is torn from her family when she is sold and thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, during which she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king. 25,000 first printing.
  • Blackwell North Amer
    Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom—and of the knowledge she needs to get home. Sold to an indigo trader who recognizes her intelligence, Aminata is torn from her husband and child and thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan, Aminata helps pen the Book of Negroes, a list of blacks rewarded for service to the king with safe passage to Nova Scotia. There Aminata finds a life of hardship and stinging prejudice. When the British abolitionists come looking for "adventurers" to create a new colony in Sierra Leone, Aminata assists in moving 1,200 Nova Scotians to Africa and aiding the abolitionist cause by revealing the realities of slavery to the British public. This captivating story of one woman's remarkable experience spans six decades and three continents and brings to life a crucial chapter in world history.
  • Norton Pub
    "You feel you are turning the pages of history, the pages of truth."—Austin Clarke, author of The Polished Hoe
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