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The Book of Negroes

✍ Scribed by Hill, Lawrence

Book ID: 100124959
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Year: 2011;2014
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 265 KB
Edition: Movie Tie-In
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 144340909X

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Lawrence Hill's nationally bestselling novel has garnered praise and awards around the world. The Book of Negroes has won the Commonwealth Writers'Prize, the Rogers Writers'Trust Fiction Prize and CBC Canada Reads, among many others. Lawrence Hill-- and his remarkable character Aminata Diallo-- have become household names throughout Canada.

Readers will follow the story of Aminata, an unforgettable heroine who cut a swath through an 18th-century world hostile to her colour and her sex. Abducted as an eleven-year-old child from her village in West Africa and put to work on an indigo plantation on the sea islands of South Carolina, Aminata survives by using midwifery skills learned at her mother's side, and by drawing on a strength of character inherited from both parents. Eventually, she has the chance to register her name in the " Book of Negroes," a historic British military ledger allowing 3,000...

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