Someone knows my name

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Someone knows my name

Title:

Someone knows my name

Uniform Title:

Book of Negroes

Author:

Hill, Lawrence, 1957-

Personal Author:

Hill, Lawrence, 1957-

ISBN:

9780393333091

Edition:

1st American ed. (Paperback ed.)

Publication Information:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008, c2007.

Physical Description:

486, [11] p. ; 21 cm.

General Note:

Originally published as: The book of Negroes.

"First published as a Norton paperback 2008" -- T.p. verso.

Includes "About the author", and "Reading Group Guide" ([8] p.)

Subject Term:

Slavery -- Fiction.

Slaves -- United States -- Fiction.

African American loyalists -- Fiction.

Blacks -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction.

African American loyalists -- Sierra Leone -- Fiction.

Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction.

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Summary

Summary

Kidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she becomes a scribe for the British, recording the names of blacks who have served the King and earned their freedom in Nova Scotia. But the hardship and prejudice of the new colony prompt her to follow her heart back to Africa, then on to London, where she bears witness to the injustices of slavery and its toll on her life and a whole people. It is a story that no listener, and no reader, will ever forget.

Published in Canada as The Book of Negroes and the basis for the award-winning BET miniseries of the same name.

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