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Book of Negroes
Author: Laurence Hill
Publisher: Harper Collins Canada (2007)
Eleven-year-old Aminata Diallo is sent from West Africa to South Carolina to live as a slave. Years later she earns her freedom by serving with the British in the American Revolution and registering her name in the Book of Negroes. Freed Loyalist slaves like Aminata requested permission to leave the U.S. for Nova Scotia; only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression of its own. Hill’s book chronicles the harrowing voyage that more than 1,200 slaves embarked on to return to Africa. Available at www.chapters.indigo.ca
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