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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Hill, Lawrence, 1957-     Subjects     Slavery -- Fiction.     Slaves -- United States -- Fiction.     Loyalists, Black -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction.     Loyalists, Black -- Sierra Leone -- Fiction.     Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- Fiction.     United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hill, Lawrence, 1957-       by title:      The book of negroes ...       by call number:      FICTION HIL     Search the Web     Hill, Lawrence, 1957-     Slavery -- Fiction.     Slaves -- United States -- Fiction.     Loyalists, Black -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction.     Loyalists, Black -- Sierra Leone -- Fiction.     Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- Fiction.     United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The book of negroes : a novel : [illustrated edition] / Lawrence Hill. by Hill, Lawrence, 1957- HarperCollins, 2009, c2007. Call #: FICTION HIL Subjects Slavery -- Fiction.   Slaves -- United States -- Fiction.   Loyalists, Black -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction.   Loyalists, Black -- Sierra Leone -- Fiction.   Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- Fiction.   United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction. Series Canada reads ; 2008. ISBN:  9781443412193 9781443416986 (pbk.) 9781554686957 Alternate title:  Someone knows my name. Edition:  1st, Special illustrated ed. Description:  xv, 509 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes:  Published in the United States under the title: "Someone knows my name". Summary:  "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. Aminata's eventual return to Sierra Leone - passing ships carrying thousands of slaves bound for America - is an engrossing account of an obscure but important chapter in history that saw 1,200 former slaves embark on a harrowing back-to-Africa odyssey."--HarperCollins Canada. Awards:  Winner of the Canada Reads Competition, 2009. Genre:  Black fiction Canadian fiction. Historical fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION HIL Adult books Adult Display 1 Add Copy to MyList

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