The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
This book follows the life of Aminata Diallo. It begins in her small village in West Africa when she was abducted at age 11 and forced to walk for months, naked and in a coffle, to a slave ship bound for the US. She is sold as a slave to an owner of an indigo plantation in South Carolina. The book follows her life from there to Charles Town, to New York, to Nova Scotia - as she becomes one of the many black Loyalists whose name was penned in The Book of Negroes - to Sierra Leone on the back-to-Africa exodus, and finally to London.
A must read for any lover of historical fiction.
This book follows the life of Aminata Diallo. It begins in her small village in West Africa when she was abducted at age 11 and forced to walk for months, naked and in a coffle, to a slave ship bound for the US. She is sold as a slave to an owner of an indigo plantation in South Carolina. The book follows her life from there to Charles Town, to New York, to Nova Scotia - as she becomes one of the many black Loyalists whose name was penned in The Book of Negroes - to Sierra Leone on the back-to-Africa exodus, and finally to London.
A must read for any lover of historical fiction.
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