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The book of negroes

Hill, Lawrence 1957- (Author).

Follows the story of Aminata Diallo, as she is kidnapped from her village in Africa and put to work in a slave plantation in South Carolina, to her journey back to Africa through Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.

Book  - 2007
FIC Hill
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Subject
Enslaved women > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Enslaved persons > United States > Fiction.
African American loyalists > Fiction.
Black loyalists > Nova Scotia > Fiction.
African American loyalists > Sierra Leone > Fiction.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > Fiction.
Canadian fiction (English)
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Fiction.
Genre
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
  • ISBN: 9780002255073
  • ISBN: 0002255073
  • ISBN: 9781554681563
  • ISBN: 9780393333091
  • ISBN: 9781443409094
  • Physical Description print
    486 pages
  • Publisher Toronto : HarperCollins, [2007]

Content descriptions

General Note:
American edition "Someone knows my name".
Winner of the 2008 Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award.
Canada reads 2009.
Canada Reads Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 34.95
Awards Note:
Canada Reads winner, 2009.

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