The Book of Negroes

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Call Number: Fiction / Hill, Lawrence
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Hill, Lawrence	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Hill, Lawrence	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Originally published as: Someone knows my name.
Includes reading group guide.
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.
Contents: Someone knows my name.

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Pulled me in submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 21, 2018, 12:16am 4.5/5 stars. An expansive book based on a true story of a girl captured in Africa in 1755, enslaved in the United States, escaped to Nova Scotia, and who eventually spoke against slavery in England. Though a huge tome, it reads quickly and well, and pulls the reader in through both characters and context (New York City in the early 1800’s from an escapee’s view is fascinating). It is clearly phenomenally researched, and Hill does a brilliant job of making slavery into more than just numbers and economics. It’s not a perfect 5/5 for me because there were times when I felt like more of an outsider to Aminata (the main character) than I felt like a book of this importance should set me up to feel. I need a book like this to bring me right into her thoughts and feelings all the way through, and it sometimes felt a little thin on that. However, that did not detract from the breadth and depth of the story and history, and this should be on everyone’s list who wants insight into America’s original sin.