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The book of negroes

Summary: Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle - a string of slaves - Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes." This book, an actual document, provides a short but immensely revealing record of freed Loyalist slaves who requested permission to leave the US for resettlement in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all of its own.

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  • ISBN: 1443408980
  • ISBN: 9781443408981
  • Physical Description: 680 pages ; 18 cm.
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  • Edition: Mass market paperback edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins, 2011.
Subject: Slavery -- Fiction
Slaves -- United States -- Fiction
African American loyalists -- Fiction
Black loyalists -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction
African American loyalists -- Sierra Leone -- Fiction
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- Fiction
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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Prince Rupert Library APb Hill (Text) 33294001957778 Paperbacks - Adult Volume hold Available -

Summary: Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle - a string of slaves - Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes." This book, an actual document, provides a short but immensely revealing record of freed Loyalist slaves who requested permission to leave the US for resettlement in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all of its own.
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