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

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Genre: Historical fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 30 of 32 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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