by Lawrence Hill · Harper Collins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781554681563
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«The Book of Negroes» is the historical novel by Lawrence Hill, published by Harper Collins in paperback (486 pages, in English).
The novel follows Aminata Diallo, kidnapped in Mali at age eleven and sold as a slave in South Carolina. After surviving the crossing, she gains her freedom and collaborates with the British in the War of Independence; her name is inscribed in the Book of Negroes, a historical record of freed loyalist slaves. Her journey takes her from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone and sheds light on a little-known chapter of slavery.
The work won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2008 in the best book category and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
A work for readers of historical fiction and book clubs interested in the African diaspora and slavery.
Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is known for his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes, inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the American Revolutionary War, and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. The Book of Negroes was adapted for a TV mini-series produced in 2015. He was selected in 2013 for the Massey Lectures: he drew from his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life, published that year. His ten books include other non-fiction and fictional works, and some have been translated into other languages and published in numerous other countries.
