The Book of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill · 2007
Popularity 54
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.
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