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The book of negroes

2012

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Format:	Book
Author:	Hill, Lawrence, 1957- author.
Title:	The book of negroes / Lawrence Hill.
Edition:	Illustrated edition.
Publisher, Date:	Toronto : HarperCollins, 2012. ©2007
Description:	xv, 509 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color facsimiles, color maps ; 23 cm
Summary:	When Aminata Diallo sits down to pen the story of her life in London, England, at the dawn of the 19th century, she has a world of experience behind her. Abducted at the age of eleven from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea. Aminata is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. Years later, she forges her way to freedom and registers her name in the "Book of Negroes," a historic ledger allowing 3,000 Black Loyalists passage on ships sailing from Manhattan to Nova Scotia.
Subjects:	Slavery -- United States -- Fiction. African American loyalists -- Fiction. Antislavery movements -- Fiction. Canadian fiction -- 21st century. United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction. Great Britain -- Fiction. Sierra Leone -- Fiction.
Genre:	Historical fiction.
Notes:	Colored maps on endpapers. Originally published in hardcover by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 2007. Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-500). Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book; Rogers Writer's Trust Fiction Prize; CBC Canada Reads.
ISBN:	9781443416986 9781443408981 9781443442107
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