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The Book of Negroes is a 2007 novel from Canadian writer Lawrence Hill. In the United States, Australia and New Zealand, the novel was published under the title Someone Knows My Name.
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The Book of Negroes, novel by Lawrence Hill, published in 2007 (under the title Someone Knows My Name in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand). Hill’s third novel, it is a work of historical fiction inspired by the document called the “Book of Negroes,” a list of Black Loyalists who fled.
Jan 18, 2007 · Lawrence Hill's THE BOOK OF NEGROES gives contemporary readers the opportunity to savour a very similar novel and to experience the horror, shame and embarrassment of acknowledging that such abhorrent conduct towards black people is an indelible part of North America's past.
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Abducted as a child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea, 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, registering her name in the historic “Book of Negroes” and eventually travelling back to Africa.
Jan 12, 2015 · The Book of Negroes: A Novel (Movie Tie-in Editions) Paperback – January 12, 2015. by Lawrence Hill (Author) 4.7 3,155 ratings. See all formats and editions. Lawrence Hill’s award-winning novel is a major television miniseries airing on BET Networks.
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Jul 13, 2010 · The Book Of Negroes: A Novel. Kindle Edition. Lawrence Hill’s nationally bestselling novel has garnered praise and awards around the world. The Book of Negroes has won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and CBC Canada Reads, among many others.
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Feb 1, 2009 · Based on a true story, Lawrence Hill's epic novel spans three continents and six decades to bring to life a dark and shameful chapter in our history through the story of one...
