The book of Negroes
/ Lawrence Hill.
- 1st Trade Paperback ed.
- Toronto : Harper Perennial , 2011
- 533 p. ; 21 cm.
Previously Published as Someone Knows My Name
Aminata Diallo is kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold as a slave in South Carolina. Fleeing to Canada after the Revolutionary War, she escapes to attempt a new life in freedom.
English
Winner of The Commonwealth Writiers' Prize for the best book Winner of The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Winner of CBC Canada Reads
9781443409094
2007008035
Slavery----Fiction African American loyalists----Fiction Blacks----Nova Scotia----Fiction Antislavery movements----Fiction Blacks---Fiction---Sierra Leone
United States---History---Fiction---Revolution, 1775-1783