The Book of Negroes -

Lawrence Hill

HarperCollins

2011

680 páginas

22h 40m

ISBN-13: 9781443408981

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 wealth 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 is 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. This spellbinding epic transports the reader from an African village to a plantation in the southern United States, from a soured refuge in Nova Scotia to the coast of Sierra Leone, in a back-to-Africa odyssey of 1,200 former slaves. In The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill transforms the neglected corners of history into a brilliantly imagined novel, already a Canadian classic that has been embraced throughout the world.