false <![CDATA[The Book of Negroes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179106489m/875436.jpg 875441 28 Stunning, wrenching and inspiring, the fourth novel by Canadian novelist Hill (Any Known Blood) spans the life of Aminata Diallo, born in Bayo, West Africa, in 1745. The novel opens in 1802, as Aminata is wooed in London to the cause of British abolitionists, and begins reflecting on her life. Kidnapped at the age of 11 by British slavers, Aminata survives the Middle Passage and is reunited in South Carolina with Chekura, a boy from a village near hers. Her story gets entwined with his, and with those of her owners: nasty indigo producer Robinson Appleby and, later, Jewish duty inspector Solomon Lindo. During her long life of struggle, she does what she can to free herself and others from slavery, including learning to read and teaching others to, and befriending anyone who can help her, black or white. Hill handles the pacing and tension masterfully, particularly during the beginnings of the American revolution, when the British promise to free Blacks who fight for the British: Aminata's related, eventful travels to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone follow. In depicting a woman who survives history's most trying conditions through force of intelligence and personality, Hill's book is a harrowing, breathtaking tour de force. 860779 1993 Someone Knows My Name total:1487|5:798|4:518|3:143|2:21|1:7| 1487 6540 2611 557 5 16 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 12 16:21:17 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 18:12:12 -0700 2009 Update (2):
This just in from BOOK NEWS -
"Lawrence Hill's bestselling novel The Book of Negroes is set to be adapted for film thanks to a chance meeting in a Toronto bookstore."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts...

Update:
"The Book of Neg...more...]]> 5 16 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jul 11 06:39:58 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 05 09:25:30 -0700 2009 (International title: Someone Knows My Name)
It's 1802 and Aminata Diallo, now an old woman, sits down to write her life story at the request of the Abolitionists in London. Abducted from her village in West Africa at the age of eleven and marched in a coffle (a string of slaves) for three mont...more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 15 19:24:50 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 19 07:17:34 -0800 2009 The Classic Slave Narratives collected by henry louis gates in one volume that includes olaudah equiano's, mary prince's,...more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 09:27:32 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 11:50:07 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 08:23:51 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 08:42:22 -0800 2008 Gone With the Wind. I've dipped into Wind every few years for the last 13 years or so, enjoying the sweeping saga, the romance that never reaches fruition. And I've always carelessly excused away the portrayal of th...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 11:43:28 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 11:47:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 10:48:17 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 11:15:02 -0700 2009 It is the second book I've read in the last 6 months that dealt with slavery during the Revolutionary War period. The first was The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing. Both novels featured Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of the Virginia colo...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 20:53:13 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 12:42:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Dec 22 20:52:24 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 20:52:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 19 12:18:23 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 07 13:10:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 12 08:41:03 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 08:41:46 -0800 2009
In 1745, Aminata Diallo was a precocious 11 year old living with her doting family in Mali. One day on her way home from helping her mother she was abducted by African slavers. After a harrowing voyage aboard a slave ship to Amer...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 06:29:43 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 06:29:43 -0800 2009
When I think of slavery in the US and the books I have read on the subject, my mind goes to the Civil War and the fight for freedom. This book takes place around the time of the Revolutionary War and tackles a previous unknown to me period in the history of...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 21 13:11:09 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 13:32:20 -0700 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
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