Book of Negroes (Movie Tie-in Editions, #0)

by Lawrence Hill

Based on a true story, "The Book of Negroes" tells the story of Aminata, a young girl abducted from her village in Mali aged 11 in 1755, and who, after a deathly journey on a slave ship where she witnesses the brutal repression of a slave revolt, is sold to a plantation owner in South Carolina, who rapes her. She is brought to New York, where she escapes her owner, and finds herself helping the British by recording all the freed slaves on the British side in the Revolutionary War in The Book of Negroes (a real historical document that can be found today at the National Archives at Kew).Aminata is sent to Nova Scotia to start a new life, but finds more hostility, oppression and tragedy. Separated from her one true love, and suffering the unimaginable loss of both her children who are taken away from her, she eventually joins a group of freed slaves on a harrowing odyssey back to Africa, and ends up in London as a living icon for Wilberforce and the other Abolitionists. "The Book of Negroes" is a pageturning narrative that manages to use Aminata's heart-rending personal story to bring to life a harrowing chapter in our history.

• ISBN10: 0002255073
• ISBN13: 9780002255073
• Publish Date: 2 February 2007
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 12 January 2023
• Publish Country: CA
• Imprint: HarperCollins Canada
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 486
• Language: English

Reviews

[Eve1972]

I really enjoyed this novel a lot, written by a Canadian author, and based on "The Book of Negroes" which is a historical document that contains the names and descriptions of 3,000 men, women, and children who served the British during the American Revolutionary War and still survives to this day, it makes for a very compelling, powerful and interesting read. Though some of the book is similar to other stories about slavery and the slave trade, the Canadian connection was new to me, so I found that to be especially interesting as I myself am a Canadian. A well researched and well written novel that brings fact and fiction together into one amazing read!