The book of negroes
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Word Count
121,500 words, Guess
Page Count
486 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL21526523M
- ISBN-139780002255073
- ISBN-100002255073
- OCLC Control Number70507153
- OCLC Control Numberbookofnegroes0000hill_n8h5
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2009464718
- Goodreads875436
- LibraryThing2402163
Classifications
- DDCC813/.54
- LCCPR9199.3.H479 B66 2007
Description
Aminata Diallo is kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold as a slave in South Carolina. Fleeing to Canada after the Revolutionary War, she escapes to attempt a new life in freedom.
Description
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle--a string of slaves-- Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic "Book of Negroes." This book, an actual document, provides a short but immensely revealing record of freed Loyalist slaves who requested permission to leave the US for resettlement in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all of its own.
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