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The Book of Negroes

Lawrence Hill

377 pages

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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.

Themes
HeartbreakingThought-ProvokingDark & BroodingEpic & AdventurousSpiritually ChargedThe brutality of slaveryResilience of the human spiritThe search for identity
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